Leading's Only Half the Battle
PC World reports on Sony's unveiling of new features to come with selected titles on Blu-Ray Profile 2.0:
Sony today demonstrated the next level of disc copying. At the company's booth at CES, Sony demonstrated how you could put a Blu-ray Disc movie into a Playstation 3 and copy the film to a Playstation Portable or a Memory Stick. "This way, you can have a portable copy you can take with you," explains David Bishop, president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
I'm assuming this is going to be plagued by DRM for some odd reason (corporate paranoia), but given how Sony's becoming relatively DRM-free nowadays, who knows? It seems a bit early for them to remove DRM from video seeing as how they've just done it for music by getting involved with Amazon's MP3 store.
HD-DVD appears to be pretty screwed at the moment, and I'd be somewhat surprised if a DVD war winner isn't going to be decided by the holiday season. HD-DVD has 2 major studios, Blu-Ray has 4. While HD-DVD has the lower price point, is it really worth it if you can't get a majority of the movies you're interested in?
It appears that consumers will have to decide by either choosing the right format or holding off until the winner is announced. (The real winner, however, is still HD-VMD.)
