Jobs on HD DVD Burners

i'd like an HD-DVD Burner.

How do HD DVD burners present greater legal issues than regular DVDs? :confused:

It's all digital content, so why does greater quality mean greater risk?

Besides, has anybody seen one of these yet, and how much do they cost? :)

i'd like an HD-DVD Burner.

Hope they put HD DVD dual layer disks in the next PowerMacs.

I hope Apple does not get into a Sony position of crippling it's computers to "save" it's entertainment division. I hope Apple continues to release the best hardware money can buy!! I don't want crippled computers. It would be a false economy if that was to happen: Apple is always leading on tech innovation.

Haha. How many times have I seen Mac zealots claim that Steve understands that DRM doesn't work?

Mac zealots should wake up and smell the coffee.

FairPlay: Another Anticompetitive Use of DRM

On a panel a few weeks ago, I asked the head lawyer for Apple's iTunes Music Store whether Apple would, if it could, drop the FairPlay DRM from tracks purchased at the Music Store. He said "no." I was puzzled, because I assumed that the DRM obligation was imposed by the major labels on a grudging Apple.

Steve Jobs loves DRM just as much as Bill Gates.

Apple is always leading on tech innovation.

*cough*bull*cough*s87t*cough*

IBM has more leading edge tech in its pinky finger then Apple does in its whole body. Tell me who else has built in hardware that aids in on the fly encryption for their laptops? Tell me who else has hardware in their laptops that can detect a fall and locks the hard drive prior to impact? Heck in another thread here on macrumors someone posted THIS NEver mind they have been looking at water cooled laptops for years now. Or how about THIS (Magnetic RAM)
Neither the 17" PowerBook, nor the iPod, nor overall design of the new PowerMacs are leading the edge of tech. (The G5 is the closest thing to bleeding edge and the CPU was created by IBM not Apple with the chipset offering a faster bus which WAS probably designed by Apple.) I would put forth Apple hasn't done anything that puts it on the cutting edge in a while. They take established tech and blend it into a beautiful, easy to use package. Nothing in the PowerBook is out of the ordinary for parts ditto with the iPod. Don't get me wrong I like Apple products but they haven't done anything bleeding edge in a while now.

I have a feeling that we're going to see some kind of authentication based scheme for HD DVD's - kind of like the DIVX mess.

IE: Player verifies authenticity with some server via modem/broadband

Portable players would have to have some way of doing this, however, too.

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Becuase I didn't know what I was talking about.

How do HD DVD burners present greater legal issues than regular DVDs? :confused:

It's all digital content, so why does greater quality mean greater risk?

Besides, has anybody seen one of these yet, and how much do they cost? :)

I think their point is that PC users would have no use for HD DVD burning except for copying commercial HD movies.

The problem I have with that is that there are already pro-sumer level HD camcorders on the market. If I were to go buy one of them to shoot weddings, my only output solution that my customers would want would be HD-DVD. (Presuming players exist for it -- I just don't see DVHS taking off, BTW)

Presumabably, I'd have to charge an arm-and-a-leg so as buy a pro HD DVD deck (should they be available) or to pay an HD Pressing facility to manufacture my clients 4 or 5 discs.

Not happy with Job's quote on this one at all.

How do HD DVD burners present greater legal issues than regular DVDs? :confused:

It's all digital content, so why does greater quality mean greater risk?

Besides, has anybody seen one of these yet, and how much do they cost? :)

Took the words right out of my mouth!

And as for when, the dual layer burner just came out and still no media for it, last time I look.