Comments on: Blu-ray burns for interactive content

Flashy features could tempt consumers--and that tempts Hollywood, which could help Blu-ray beat out a rival technology.

[kxmmxk]

too much intrusion

When I first heard about blue ray tech I thought it was pretty neat.

But this idea is ridiculous. I don't want them writing stuff onto a DVD I bought, with my hard earned money, anymore than I want some Tivo device downloading stuff I didn't ask for or spying on me. Things are getting way too intrusive into our homes.

Max Headroom, here we come.

[reinmasamuri]

Absolutly abhorrid.

You know you'll hear about bad downloads, or the MPAA deleting "questionable content" from the consumer version of the writable Blu-ray DVD's.
The truth is you can't trust them to let you do what you are legally allowed to do. They will try and block it at every turn.

[Tex Murphy PI]

Too much space? Are they crazy?!

Only an idiot will say that 50GB or storage is too much capacity when dealing with HD feeds.

The scariest part is that the studios are the ones who help determined which standard is adopted - meaning that they will certainly insist on another layer of dumb Digital Rights management software to inconvenience the user.

[Steven N]

promises...

They are playing the same tricks again...

Starting with the CD, it had a lot of possible added features: CD Text, never saw one shiny disk with it. the only way to get it, is to make a copy and add it yourselves. Multiple sessions, CD extra, never saw one, except for anti-copying purposes, which they sold as "an extra".
Same with the DVD, which also has interactive features: ever found one disk with the possibility to change the camera viewpoint?
The same with Bue ray or whatever they call it. Lots of fuss, to lure consumers into buying their stuff at a high price, but in the end you end up with nothing more than on a DVD.

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This is not about the consumers, this is all about getting our cash into their overpaid pockets. And complaining if people give a copy to their friends like we all did with cassettes.
Once read an article about the development of the DVD, it was actually meant to provide a cheaper medium that the VHS cassette. Never felt that into my pocket, the cassette is still half the price of a DVD that is actually cheaper to produce.

I don't need interactive junk on my movie, I want quality, not some sloppy computer generated image (or was it a red blob) of a cartoon character hanging on walls. Same with the "music", I've had it with guys on too much testosterone, women shaking every possible body part, but all producing the same noise or boing-boing. It all sounds the same, so why buying more of the same?
</rant>

[FisherKingKQJ]

article referring to format wars and Hollywood crowning Blu ray.

I was just looking at the $22 billion debt of the California local body govt and wondering how Hollywood, the personal slave of credit cards and rolling blackouts was going to decide the future of interactive movies. Do you really think that someone like me, a programmer of 3d interactive movies, is going to go down on the knees as the slave of a slave? There are other formats outside
Blu Ray and its rivals - and other business models.
As I see it, the entertainment industry will go down my road, the road of 3d and VR and cash OR it will go down the road of chipspeed (100ghz+) and gaming, the latter being the end of money.