[NTLUG:Discuss] DeCSS -- losing the limelight

[Steve Baker]

Mark Bainter wrote:
 
> However, I find DivX encouraging.  I'm hoping someone actually
> makes a format out of this and makes it popular enough that the movie industry
> is forced into using it.  /That/ would make me very happy.  But, till then, I
> don't see myself using it for anything.

Hmm - why?  DivX movies would be much lower quality than DVD disks and since
both are pressed into a 5 inch vinyl platter, their manufacturing costs
will be pretty comparable.  DVD drives aren't much harder to make than
CD drives - so they are bound to become as widespread so long as there
is a reason to buy them.

Given that only about $1 of the price of a DVD and just $0.50 of the
price of a CD is the cost of the physical media - I think I'd rather
pay that extra fifty cents to get the higher quality.

IMHO, DVD drives would become popular even *without* the existance
of DVD movies. All seven CD's of a fully stuffed Linux distro on
one of those cut-down credit-card disks anyone?

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