What's your reaction to Hollywood's standards for hi-def DVD's next gen?

The mandatory HDCP thing is bullshit. There are going to be a LOT of pissed-off early adopters whose HDTV sets have only component YCbCr inputs (no HDMI) and cannot utilize the new media if they go through with this.

Me, I bought an HDTV last summer, for one reason and one reason alone...

HD games. I protested loudly when my family wanted to hook it up to the cable line, as I wanted no TV at all on it (i.e. nothing but games). I have no intentions of buying an HD-DVD or blu-ray player at any point. If Sony cleans up their act big time and releases no more defective CDs, as well as scraps their one-game-one-console licensing scheme, then I might buy a PS3. If the PS3 doubles as a blu-ray player, then fine, I'll own one that way. But I'm in no fucking hurry to adopt that technology. For me, DVD is good enough. The technology exists to play it back well, as well as rip it, convert it, compress it, port it, and otherwise manipulate it as I desire. From what I hear, AACS will try very hard to stop me from doing what I do with current DVDs: rip them, remove all the ads and FBI notices, and burn them back to DVD-R as just main features that auto-play when I put them in my DVD player.

I want HD games. HD Hollywood can go fuck itself.

Jam it back in, in the dark.