Time to be on guard against a new "pay again" scheme, yes folks the rip-off format changes.
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articleAID=/20060613/ZNYT01/606130406/1001/BUSINESSPart of the DVD's success is that the discs are easy to buy, easy to use and relatively inexpensive, thanks to the well-oiled system of getting them into consumers' hands.
Robotic machines spit out new discs about every three seconds. The discs are wheeled into adjoining buildings, where they are fed into plastic cases that are wrapped for shipping. At another warehouse, the DVD's are packed into ready-made cardboard displays, plunked onto pallets and shipped on behalf of the studios to Best Buy, Costco and other retailers, arriving within days of being ordered.
High-definition DVD's were supposed to pick up the slack, but technical delays and a thorny format war between camps led by Sony and Toshiba have dampened expectations.
Another complication is that consumers with older high-definition television sets may not get the best possible picture if studios activate certain copy protection software embedded on their HD-DVD's.
Please take the time to read the full article, these snippets are part of a much larger and more important aspect of creeping DRM and why its being played down by those introducing new formats.
