Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Goodbye, music!

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Well, sooner or later  someone should have to cope with an online music store closing its doors, including the DRM authorization servers.

According to Boing Boing, the first one will be the MSN Music store.

So users will see their music files completely unlocked? No way! People will lose the rights to listen to their music, wasting all the moneys spent! That’s the real problem of DRM and Digital Delivery in general: you pay at street price the rights to use something you don’t own and that is highly dependent on the seller’s economic health or future business plans. If they decide to ditch the music distribution (as for MS), you are basically screwed.

Let’s hope that the foreseeable class action resulting from this outrage will sort out the DRM war forever.

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No Blu-Ray for X360 despite promises

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Microsoft confirmed our worst fears: they won’t embed Blu-Ray tech in their newest models, despite previous announcements and the tenets of the 360 marketing since launch: “We will adopt the standard that wins”.

The choice is understandable: adopting Blu-Ray would mean paying royalties to Sony, bolstering its definite reprise in the home theater and entertainment segment. In addition, Microsoft is going to champion movie streaming  and having a set-top-box able to play any rentable mass-market HD movies may be less than ideal to improve digital revenues.

I still question the wide adoption of Blu-Ray as a non-gaming format. Given that most of Next Gen consoles are not used in HD mode, why movie playback may be different, if it’s targeted to a still less sophisticated market segment?

Still, to be able to play Lost Odissey in a single media is not a such bad idea!

Let’s hope at least for a future “install to HD” option…

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