Re:New DVD DRM? (Score 3, Insightful)

Yah, that's why I still have a lot of laserdiscs lying around. The video quality is pretty good (slightly less than DVD), the sound is incredible (uncompressed PCM, and sometimes even AC3), and they work in every player ever made. And the extra neat bonus is that they don't have any Macrovision, or any other form of copy protection. I kinda miss the laserdisc days, since they really cared about compatability. When laserdisc started to implement Dolby Digital, they decided that they needed to do it in a way which would make sure that older players weren't obsolete. Instead of just telling everyone that in order to watch a newer movie, you had to buy a new player, they instead created discs that stored mono analog on one track, modulated Dolby Digital on the other track, and then Digital PCM on the digital tracks. Thus, all generations of players (Analog, Digital and AC3) could all play the same discs. Truly impressive.