Comments on: Weekly News Roundup (14 June 2009) http://www.digital-digest.com/blog/DVDGuy/2009/06/14/weekly-news-roundup-14-june-2009/ Just what the world needs, another blog Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:23:00 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: DVDGuy http://www.digital-digest.com/blog/DVDGuy/2009/06/14/weekly-news-roundup-14-june-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-7960 DVDGuy Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:43:05 +0000 http://www.digital-digest.com/blog/DVDGuy/?p=867#comment-7960 You're absolutely right, J Summerville. Totally forgot about BD+ being bought up by Macrovision - I guess they saw the writing on the wall for analog copy protection when they made that decision ($45m back then for a technology that was already partially cracked seemed ridiculous, but now it makes sense). You’re absolutely right, J Summerville. Totally forgot about BD+ being bought up by Macrovision – I guess they saw the writing on the wall for analog copy protection when they made that decision ($45m back then for a technology that was already partially cracked seemed ridiculous, but now it makes sense).

]]> By: J Summerville http://www.digital-digest.com/blog/DVDGuy/2009/06/14/weekly-news-roundup-14-june-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-7958 J Summerville Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:52:10 +0000 http://www.digital-digest.com/blog/DVDGuy/?p=867#comment-7958 "The only thing it stops is Macrovision from getting royalties from Blu-ray (which is not a bad thing, really), and it stops people using Blu-ray on older equipment." Of course Macrovision will still get royalties if the studios use BD+ copy protection on their Blu-ray disks. “The only thing it stops is Macrovision from getting royalties from Blu-ray (which is not a bad thing, really), and it stops people using Blu-ray on older equipment.”

Of course Macrovision will still get royalties if the studios use BD+ copy protection on their Blu-ray disks.

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