hd-dvd sucks

More exciting news for HD…the first batch of HD players to come out won’t support Mandatory Managed Copy. 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, but I do think it’s an important feature to have if you’re going to drop $1k on a shiny new player. If you must jump on the bandwagon, this is yet another reason to wait for the dust to settle.

Sony has done it again! Today they announced that the PlayStation 3 will be delayed until November. Look’s like everyone’s hope for a cheap Blu-ray player sometime soon just went bye…bye. Supposedly Sony is working on some extra security features to protect the games from being copied (boring). 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 definitely see what happens in the next coming months!