Re: is x10.com dead?

[AZ Nomad <aznomad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:34:39 -0500, Robert Green <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>The article talks about how Microsoft has just defected from Sony's BluRay
>format to join the Toshiba HD-DVD camp:

>"But two unexpected and little-noticed decisions by the Blu-ray group last
>spring managed to alienate Microsoft and ultimately revive Toshiba's sagging
>fortunes.

>First, Sony and the Blu-ray group adopted a Java program for interactive
>features. Microsoft favored a rival called iHD because, among other things,
>it would work better with its new Vista operating system. The Blu-ray
>group's board also approved an encryption technology called BD+, which Mr.
>Majidimehr, Microsoft's vice president for Windows digital media, deemed
>superfluous."

...

that article totally missed the primary reason for microsoft adapting
hd-dvd:  the playstation/x-box war.  There is no way in hell microsoft
would adapt a sony standard that differentiated the PS/XB if there
was any choice at all.