[plug] Linux, DRM and VOD

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

The "DVD" player that I use is a zensonic which plays divx, xvid mp3 and 
a few other video and audio codecs as well as dvd's and the new version 
thats yet to be released is exactly that a wireless set top box 
basically.  My understanding is that it runs on unix as an os.

Its a bloody good dvd player because most movies that I've tried to play 
work on it.  The less amount of stuffing around the better.

Regards,


Marc
Chris Caston wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I was just reading an article on news.com.au entitled:
>
>Telcos take on the video store
>
>(http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10479378%255E15306,00.html)
>
>"I think the existing Big Pond Music model is the model that you will
>see most likely to be used, which is one of the reasons that we do Big
>Pond Music," he said. 
>
>The problem I can see with this is at movies on demand will become
>available but they will be so worried about DRM that they will cripple
>the service so that loyal Linux using customers will be locked out.
>
>Currently there is nothing to stop a Linux user from playing a rented
>DVD on their Linux or home dvd system; albeit it took a while for us to
>get here with DeCSS (libdvdcss) and all.
>
>>From the article:
>
>"But wireless technology means some customers will be able to send the
>movie images directly to their TV set rather than watching films on a
>computer screen."
>
>But will you seen need a Windows machine to grab and decode the movie in
>the first place?
>
>Perhaps we will wait and see or act for the outcome that we want.
>
>regards,
> 
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>