Bill Gates Speaks Out Against Next-Gen DVDs

jZnat writes "Although we all know that Microsoft hates Blu-Ray, Bill Gates doesn't seem to like HD-DVD either. Primarily, it seems, because Mr. Gates believes media storage on hard drives is likely to be the default standard sooner rather than later. From the interview: 'Well, the key issue here is that the protection scheme under Blu-Ray is very anti-consumer and there's not much visibility of that. The inconvenience is that the [MPAA] got too much protection at the expense of consumers and it won't work well on PCs. You won't be able to play movies and do software in a flexible way.'"

If Bill Gates spoke out against jumping off cliffs

[Hosiah]

...I would sprint for the cliff out of sheer reflex. I wasn't so sure about Blu-Ray before, but anybody Bill Gates doesn't like is a friend of mine!

As for the Redmond round table: I just realized that every time I hear Microsoft open it's mouth these days, it's complaining or unhappy about something. Is this what a mastodon sounds like as it sinks into a tar pit?

Re:Is this the same Bill Gates?

[mysticwhiskey]

Ala Keyser Soze - "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist"

;)

Erp?

[hardgeus]

So...confused...don't know which evil to side with...

Re:Storage on hard drives

[mysticwhiskey]

DISTORBUTION - (n) A corruptive distortion-like field generated with the intent to imbue the subject with a sense of acceptance.

Re:Sour Grapes?

[QuantumG]

it's flip-flopping.

Re:If Bill Gates spoke out against jumping off cli

[aurb]

He may be Bill Gates, but I think he's right this time.

*ducks under the table*

Re:How far wrong is he?

[ebuck]

Winston: I'm worried, Ray. All my readings point to something big on the horizon.

Ray: What do you mean, big?

Winston: Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of hard drive space in a New York area desktop. Based on this morning's reading, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.

Ray: That's a big Twinkie.

Yes Mr Stallman

[strider44]

'Well, the key issue here is that the protection scheme under Blu-Ray is very anti-consumer and there's not much visibility of that. The inconvenience is that the [MPAA] got too much protection at the expense of consumers and it won't work well on PCs. You won't be able to play movies and do software in a flexible way.'

Yes Mr Stallman, but I think that this sort of thing is bound to happen whatever you...Bill who said what?

Re:How far wrong is he?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's Egon who explains it to Ray, and Winston who says "That's a big Twinkie".

Sigh, I have no life do I?

Better post AC.

EVIL all around us!

[Quixadhal]

VHS macrovision... evil.
DVD region coding... evil.
HD-DVD small capacity... evil.
Blu-Ray Super-DRM... Evil.
Hard Drive distribution failure rates, cost... Evil!
Download network saturation... EVIL!
Streaming-only content lack of persistancy... EEEEVIL!

Wherefore art thou Crystal Storage?

Re:Erp? (indecisive version)

[Anonymous Coward]

We are at war with Sony Pictures. We have always been at war with Sony Pictures. Microsoft is our ally. Microsoft has always been our ally. Please report to the Ministry of Information for reprocessing.

Re:Wow

[PFritz21]

Yeah, kinda makes you wonder what Microsoft did with the REAL Bill...

USAian indeed - that's still clever

[heinousjay]

I ask in all seriousness, is there any end to the superiority of our enlightened Euro-brothers? I applaud you for your very existence - nothing about you can be said to be less than perfect. Thank you for existing, good sir.