Blu-Ray Specification requires internet connection
Blu-Ray specifications currently under development require an internet connection – interesting! I guess since most of the drives are software upgradable that means that with an internet connection that process could be made automatic as well as providing a mechanism for key revocation?? What if the internet connection was used as an authorisation process for actually playing the content?
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HD-DVD was way ahead of this. The spec meant that every HD-DVD player had to have an Ethernet port and be Internet ready from day one. Blue-Ray on the other hand only had that as an option at the manufacturer’s discretion.
Furthermore, HD-DVD players can keep downloaded content in memory. So it’s possible to unlock new content over the Internet or download the latest character/actor profiles, news, etc.
Although disc capacity is half that of Blue-Ray, it is a better spec’d standard. VHS has won again. Bye bye HD-DVD.