Apparently the first batch of HD players to come out won't support Mandatory Managed Copy. Although I insist otherwise, if you must jump on the bandwagon, this is yet another reason to wait for the dust to settle. No one knows yet how well MMC will work, if all movies will in fact allow it, what it will cost you to make your "mandatory" copies, what you will be able to do with these copies (will they really let us move them onto portable players?), etc... but I do think it's an important feature to have if you're going to drop a G on a shiny new player.

Upon searching, I came across someone else who feels similar to me about the forth coming "revolution". However, HDBeat.com, a decent sized blog about all things HD, thinks that this person is wrong and that his call for a boycott "at this point" will do nothing. Well, as far as I know, boycotting a product means not buying said product. How are you supposed to boycott something before it's even released? Our calls for boycott will of course not change whether or not Blu-ray and HD-DVD are successful products (they should fail on their own merits), but if either of us sway even one person to think twice before forking over their money, I will consider our efforts a success.

Warner, who is supposedly going to be the first studio to release movies on HD-DVD, has delayed their first releases by three weeks from March 28 to April 18. Toshiba has said they are likely to delay the release of their players to match the launch of the first content, though they haven't officially announced it yet. HD-DVD's first-to-market advantage over Blu-ray is getting smaller and smaller, and now looks like they'll beat Blu-ray to market by only one month. (Blu-ray is currently scheduled to launch May 23). This is unfortunate because if it were life and death, and I had to choose between HD-DVD or Blu-ray, I would take HD-DVD any day of the week. I mean, considering all the crap Sony has pulled, I just don't like them anymore.

Also, Toshiba is apparently only shipping 10,000 total HD-DVD players for its intial launch, indicating they aren't exactly expecting steller sales. Of course, with only three movies at launch, it shouldn't be too surprising.

Look's like everyone's hope for a cheap Blu-ray player sometime soon just went bye bye. (Cheap being a relative term of course.) Sony today announced that the PlayStation 3 will be delayed until November. Supposedly they are working on some extra security features to protect the games from being copied. They're also probably doing it to save a ton of money. I'm sure they'll still lose money initially on PS3 hardware sales, but at that point Blu-ray will have been on the market for 6 months so their manufacturing costs will have come down significantly. We'll see what happens!

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Finding myself more and more appalled on a daily basis as things have unfolded with the next generation DVD formats, I finally got fed up and decided to start a consumer advocacy and news site about it all things Blu-ray, HD-DVD, and AACS. For more information, please see the Boycott Blu-ray and HD-DVD page.

There are six aliases for this site, so choose your poison and spread the word. fuckbluray.com, fuckhddvd.com, fuckaacs.com, bluraysucks.com, hddvdsucks.com, and aacssucks.com.