Comments on: Sony's Blu-ray notebook arriving next week

If you've got $3,500 to spare and want to see the latest in high-tech movies, Sony has the laptop for you.
Photo: Sony's Blu-ray Vaio

[Broward Horne]

BluRay the tenative winner

The rate of change for BluRay hype is now increasing faster than hype for HD-DVD.

http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme?entry=blu_ray_vs_hd_dvd

I tenatively declare Blu-Ray the winnah!

[ralfthedog]

Region coding would have pushed for HD-DVD

I think that HD-DVD would have won just because it did not have region codes. Now that HD has sold out, I think blue ray will win .

[luvmysubaru]

Spoken like a tru-blu fanboy!

Without any players or media on the market, you're declaring a
winner in a battle that will stay on the sidelines for years to come.
No one, that matters, cares about HD. DVD sales will dominate for
another 10 years. The winner will be decided by content and not
technology and at this point, there's no way to intelligently discuss
who will "win" this format war. Silly fanboy gibberish...

[heystoopid]

Oh well

Oh well, given SONY's, absolute worship of the DRM demigod at all levels!, it probably comes complete with a phone home rootkit anyway!(might make a useable Linux Machine with the right library of drivers?, well it would eliminate the basic M$ windows rootkit achilles heel!)

The history of sales of both the LP, Audio CD, and the original Toshiba DVD format players, tell us once the price of this technology drops below a critical $300 mark, then and only then, will the plain vanilla Joe C Consumer, buy into new media technology, but until then it remains only a rich man's play toy!

The initial extremely large buy in cost, for full High Definition resolution equipment, will remain it's achilles heel for a long time to come, for it will require a very expensive upgrade path on a product that has an easy access DRM lock down key built in as standard fitment!

Think of the fun and games, when virus writers discover how weak the players defensive mechanism can be, an tailor the next gen killer virii, to shut down these devices, when they phone home?

Until then, which came first the chicken or the egg?

Ultimately , the success or fail of any new media technology, is all about affordability and convenience at the consumer end! Sadly, unnecessary and stupid DRM roadblocks, which the media companies favor, to force the consumer to repurchase that which they already own!, may prove very fatal, in both the short and long term!

[EMCRNV]

Don't worry about the digital "road blocks".

It won't take long for Blu-ray HD DVD copy software to be developed to bypass the "locks" put on Blu-ray recorded movies. They did it with DVD's (www.cloneDVD.net, for the best one) and with Blu-ray, it's only a matter of time until you can back-up your Blu-ray library to your hearts content.