Bill Gates call Blu-ray Anti-consumer.

[Smokey]

As you all know, recently Microsoft endorsed HD-DVD over Blu-ray. He gave an interview to Princetonian about this issue, and he called Blu-ray format not consumer friendly.

Here is what he said:

“Well, the key issue here is that the protection scheme under Blu-ray is very anti-consumer and there's not much visibility of that. The inconvenience is that the [movie] studios got too much protection at the expense of consumers and it won't work well on PCs. You won't be able to play movies and do software in a flexible way.

It's not the physical format that we have the issue with, it's that the protection scheme on Blu is very anti-consumer. If [the Blu-ray group] would fix that one thing, you know, that'd be fine.”

He didn’t go into more detail than that, but I wished they asked him what protection scheme HD-DVD got that set it apart from Blu-ray.

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/arc...ws/13474.shtml