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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2509764" data-attributes="member: 14159">Vote with your wallets, don't buy the new stuff.Frankly, if people don't buy the new Blu-Ray or HD-DVD formats, and don't replace their TV's and DVD players to do so, then they won't make money off of them.Simply put, the DVD format is well entrenched and I don't see people dumping their new DVD players en masse to buy brand new ones just because there is a format-war going on between new "secure" formats.  These "secure" formats require customer buy-in to be effective, remember the DIVX debacle?  Buying a new DVD player which requires you to buy a new HDTV all so you can get the newest DVD when you already have a DVD player and TV but it's not "secure" is a ticket to potential market ruin.The DVD was originally created as a "secure" medium, and that security lasted not very long at all.  The CD was "secure" when it was created because when it was created nobody in the industry thought any consumer would be able to copy it or record their own.  Nothing is "secure" forever, and there quickly comes a point where you are so "secure" you've made the product nigh unusable (DRM'ed .pdf's anybody?).Also, there is no such thing as a secure video storage medium.  Ever hear of a Kinescope?  It's the only reason we have copies of a lot of old TV shows and movies, you can set a camera up to record from a TV.  Sync it up right and it's a pretty high quality copy.  The moment this new format hits the public, you know there will be hackers in a dozen countries working on a way to decrypt the data stream, turn it into an unencrypted stream, and record a conventional DVD of the product.  It only buys time, all encryption and electronic security is only temporary.</blockquote>

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