Hackers discover HD DVD and Blu-ray "processing key"

[durex]

I'm impressed. Excellent news

[Beck38]

Downloading ~20gig files would still be a pain. And blank hddvd/bluray is going to be expensive as hell.

The 'interesting part' is going to be the slope of the prices once the demand ramps up; $20/ea for blank write-once single layer BluRay is now the norm, but I've seen hints that a per/ea price of $4 is will within fast possibility.

The burners are dropping as well, the Pioneer SW-5582 is down around $750 (it's brother the BDR-101AS is $100 more) but they were originally at the $1500+ range just a handfull of months ago. The players have to get cheap(er) as well.

So, what is the price level got to be before the burners and the blanks to feed them got to be before it becomes 'mainstream'. Everybody has their 'price point', but I'd say $350 for the burners (that's when DVD burners really started to take off circa 2001), and media at the $2-4 ea. Also, decrypting is only the first step s/w wise, basic tools such as DVDRemake need to be upgraded as well to strip out the slime, and reauthor the disk structure. Then what about dual-layer HD discs....

As to the transfer into either newsgroups or P2P, speeds are increasing (particularly upstream), slowly but surely. The 'gold standard' of home connections being Verizon's FIOS, where upstream is at 5Mb/s and higher. Of course, that's still a crawl next to commercial connections, but the downstream is as fast as 50Mb/s. The 20GB file will stream to you in about 56 minutes. If my arithmetic is right.

Okay, just go to sleep for another year, and all these things will be solved, right?

[SkitzAnimator]

HD is a pain for memory, but it's cool what they found out.

[vipdiablo]

niceeeeee