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They lasted a few years after the format wars ended with a DVD-only solution, so I'm sure they will come up with something. Hopefully a successful appeal.They can't realistically sell products to new users as who is going to accept a Blu-ray only solution and have no way of importing DVDs.
They lasted a few years after the format wars ended with a DVD-only solution, so I'm sure they will come up with something. Hopefully a successful appeal.
I was just about to post that same thought. If "pre-April-8" systems were still permitted to load DVDs, AND if Kaleidescape can continue in some form to offer the MovieGuide service for DVDs, then the resale value of these Pre-4/8 systems may go through the roof. Buyers would be taking a chance on Kaleidescape shutting the whole thing down, or further legal action, but in the meantime, the value of the worlds' only DVD server might go up.It would be interesting to see the resale value of old servers increase because of this and I suspect that very likely could happen if people were convinced of the ongoing viability of Kaleidescape..
...Buyers would be taking a chance on Kaleidescape shutting the whole thing down, or further legal action, but in the meantime, the value of the worlds' only DVD server might go up.
Could the fact that the judgment is covering grounds outside of the scope of the DVD-CCA agreement with Kaleidescape (unencrypted media) lead towards the entire judgment being thrown away?
I think it would be nice if the new systems displayed this when you try to load a DVD:
The ability to load DVD titles into the system has been removed due to a court order by Judge William J. Monahan
Court Address
Court phone number
Court email address
You don't want to put his home address and phone number on there, but the court number/address are public and one cannot get in trouble for posting them. It is also easy for somebody to change their phone number, but more of a pain for a government office to do so.
Granted, it wouldn't be like having everybody who owned an iPod calling them, but the people who see that are all going to be in the group known as "people with clout".
I'm hoping Kaleidescape would now consider opening up the "hidden" meta-data editing that only they can do right now - things like the start timecode of the actual movie, the spot where the credits start to role, the aspect-ratio, etc.
They don't have much incentive to do it for us, but if the movieguide server shuts down for good, having the ability to maintain our own DVDs (even import new ones to our Pre-4/8 servers) would allow us to continue to use them as today. Without this ability being given to end-users in a UI change, all future DVD imports will just have the generic "play disc" command, won'd to all the fancy junk-skipping, trigger screen masking systems or anamorphic lens switching, etc.
well all Kscape need to do is open up the hard drive storage architecture so server appears as a user share on the network where you can save files to. Let the owners load the videos/movies from their PC/hard drives to the server and load their own metadata. They can put a discalimer that if the consumer can legally have a copy of the video he owns on a hard drive he is welcome to load it to the server as long as he is responsible for making sure that he has legally copied the video on the hard drive of the content he owns., like the others companies do...