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More and more it becomes evident that the specs of the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are still not complete yet. The latest addition is the use of Verance Audio Watermarking, similar to that we know from the DVD-Audio.
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As the devices now are still made according to the "AACS Interim specifications" they will ignore the watermark, but when the upcoming final version will be released, newer devices have to reject playing the (hi-rez?) audio of recordable disks with watermarked content (copies).
This phased addition of "features" is a different tactic as with DVD-A, where the waiting for the final specs took so long that the momentum had almost gone (partly due to the introduction of Multi Channel SACD in the mean time).
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As the devices now are still made according to the "AACS Interim specifications" they will ignore the watermark, but when the upcoming final version will be released, newer devices have to reject playing the (hi-rez?) audio of recordable disks with watermarked content (copies).
This phased addition of "features" is a different tactic as with DVD-A, where the waiting for the final specs took so long that the momentum had almost gone (partly due to the introduction of Multi Channel SACD in the mean time).