HD Formats, Hollywood Acceptance, and the BD+ Crack

Writing on the Home Theater Magazine website, Mark Fleischmann notes the Slysoft crack of Blu-ray BD+ and wonders how this will affect the acceptance of the competing HD formats by the Hollywood studios.

BD and HD DVD are both struggling formats, and one of the things they're struggling for is the acceptance of Hollywood. If the movie studios aren't confident in the ability of BD or HD DVD to protect their intellectual property, they'll have less incentive to release the gems of their catalogues in these formats. For videophiles, this is bad news.

Good point.