On 09/01/2018 09:15 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I don't know if any DVD players have ever used Java, but all Blu-ray players
do require it, because unfortunately, the Blu-ray spec allows for the menus
to be done via Java (presumably so that they can be fancier than what was
possible on DVDs).
DVDs (PUOs)...BluRays (Java)...Web...
All evidence that the more technical power you give content creators,
the bigger the design abominations they'll subject the world to ;) [1]
I actually once came across a professionally-produced, major-studio
BluRay where pressing Pause didn't pause the video, but actually made it
deliberately switch over to and play a *different* video instead.
This is why a good system is one that automatically does the right thing
by default, and makes you work to do the wrong thing...if it's even
important enough to have the escape hatch.
[1] That, of course, is not an "us-vs-them" statement: Programmers are
by definition content creators, too!
