“Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday copy protection issues would delay the Japan launch of the first players supporting its HD DVD format, the latest development in the high-stakes battle for the next generation of video discs,” The Associated Press reports. “Players will not hit the Japanese market until details of a copy protection system for the players are worked out, Toshiba said in a statement, reversing its earlier intention to roll out the first players in Japan by the end of the year. Toshiba did not give a specific release date. But the company said it would continue to push for a U.S. launch early next year.”
“HD DVD is backed by Universal Studios, Warner Bros. and Intel Corp., as well as Microsoft Corp., which hopes its new Xbox 360 video game console will challenge the longtime dominance of Sony’s PlayStation,” AP reports. “Blu-ray is backed by Apple Computer Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc., along with a variety of other tech companies and studios.”
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“90 percent of the CE industry and seven movie studios now back Blu-ray Disc. And most of the IT industry (except Microsoft) also supports Blu-ray Disc,” Dennis Barker reports for Desingtechnica.
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You can’t resist the dark side my son, come over to the Blu-ray Disc.
oh… and first post and all that.
HD-DVD, please die already.
DIE!
Perhaps they shoudl delay this stillborn technology for about a decade.
On second thought, launch it now, it will be fun seeing Microsoft lose again.
Bring on BD!
“90 percent of the CE industry a… And most of the IT industry (except Microsoft) also supports Blu-ray Disc,” Dennis Barker
Its consumers that matter.
Ballmer: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Allchin: We get signal.
Gates: What!?!
Allchin: Main screen turn on.
[Blue screen pause time reboot slow]
Gates: It’s you!!
JOBS: How are you gentlemen?!? And Ballmer.
JOBS: All your disc are belong to us.
JOBS: You are on the way to destruction.
Gates: What you say?!?
JOBS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
JOBS: Ha Ha Ha Ha . . .
Allchin: Captain Gates?!?
Gates: Take off every Virus!!
Ballmer: You know what you doing – I hope.
[Throw chair smash hole sweat time]
Gates: Move Virus.
Gates: For great profit.
“DVD Jon” probably already has a crack ready and waiting, and a protection scheme isn’t even worked out yet.
MDN word: expect
Jobs:
Please don’t use babble fish to translate a dialog…it sounds stupid…
I’m not making fun of non English speakers, but if you don’t speak the language…well.
That’s why I don’t make jokes in Latin. His undoubtedly clever jest loses all it’s glory.
Oh, I thought it was funny specifically because it IS translated through Babelfish.
Sort of like Andy Kaufman as Latka on ‘Taxi’. Very funny.
Okay…you have a point.
It “IS” funny in that light!
I hadn’t had my coffee yet
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Jerry T-
It’s a play on the whole “All your base are belong to us” mistranslation.
Go here . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us
. . . to learn about it. It’s been all over the internet since 2000 when a song was written about it.
Given those facts, I thought it was hilarious. Kudos, JOBS!
http://allyourbase.planettribes.gamespy.com/video1_view.shtml
fuunnny!
Would people in other countries please answer this question. In Australia we have digital pay (cable) television being rolled out. On the movie channels new Universal movies are copyrighted preventing subscribers from making personal copies. I was on the verge of transferring from the analogue service until I was confronted with this issue. Is this the case in other countries or is this just Australia specific? Please note this is not part of a box office package just on the normal movie channels.
Jokes which need to be explained just aren’t all that funny, for some odd reason!
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longtime dominance of playstation? uh.. you mean like.. 4 years? haha!
People who need to have jokes explained to them are the worst.
Rainy Day, buy a clue.
To anyone who knows the original dialogue . . .
. . . that. . . is. . . f-cking. . . Hilarious!!!!!!
Good job . . . Jobs.
I got to agree, I loved it Jobs. I run a plasma screen at a college using Keynote, school events type of stuff. One month when they were particularly slow in getting me new information to post I put up ‘All your base are belong to us.’ It’s one of those things that if you get it you get it, if you don’t then move along, nothing to see here.
blue-ray is very much alive here in electronics land. blue-ray dvr’s are selling, albeit a little pricy for now. with this delay, i don’t think hd-dvd has a chance now.
mw: attack, as in blue-ray is in attack mode?
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