Blu-Ray Disc or HD-DVD?

[djoxygen]

Also, I don't wanna be monitored by the player's company. To use Blu-ray you must be connected to the internet.

This is also not a guarantee. It is one possibility they are considering for anti-piracy measures (on both platforms, since they use almost identical copy protection and encryption). But since few people (percentage-wise) have internet connections near their TVs, it would be a stupid move on the part of either camp to *require* it.

 

[furrycute]

Whichever format ends up requring an internet connection in order to play deserves to DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I need PERMISSION from movies companies in order to watch a movie I PAID for?!!!!!

I'll boycott both that stupid company and that stupid movie studio (now that I think about it, I'll boycott my stupid self for ever buying that stupid disc in the first place).


Of course, the following is just purely hypothetically speaking. What if I decide to watch porno once in a while, now am I going to be blacklisted from now on on some company's database as a sex fiend?!

 

[djoxygen]

Just out of curiousity, and in the role of devil's advocate, how many of you have your TiVo/DirecTV/whatever-boxes hooked up to a phone line?

I personally haven't had my DirecTV box hooked up to the phone since the day it was activated.

But if you do, is it only a matter of degrees that separates the (hypothetical) HD Internet requirement from TiVo calling the mother ship?

 

[furrycute]

Doesn't Tivo need to download weekly program schedules from the internet?

How can it function otherwise?