HD = No More Fair Use
Here is a pretty good blog post that sums this up nicely.
What this all boils down to is that the movie studios will now be able to regulate which plugs you use to connect your tv and your HD movie player.
The component cables which were the early HD standard? Analog so they will play back your HD movie at 1/4th the possible resoution (you'll get 100 more lines than DVD as opposed to 600 lines more).
DVI cables? Digital with no copy protection (even worse in the movie studio's eyes)...
HDMI (The current top of the line)? Eh depends on if your TV maker had the foresight to include all the copy protection stuff that this standard allows for... if not oh well your screwed...
So whats this boil down to?
If you want to use a first gen HDTV you're screwed (no digital/copy protected inputs).
Want to use your computer? You're screwed... unless it was built by an OEM that ensures that the data in encrypted from Disc to motherboard, decoded in the processor, the reencoded by the video card... Oh and you need one of those HDMI cables for your monitor (which I haven't seen as a standard feature on any monitors in my price range).
So yeah, I'm normally an "early adopter" but I'm not touching this stuff with a 10 foot pole. I just hope that alot of other people realize how much the movie studios are trying to screw us over and are atleast asking "Do I get lube with this?"
What this all boils down to is that the movie studios will now be able to regulate which plugs you use to connect your tv and your HD movie player.
The component cables which were the early HD standard? Analog so they will play back your HD movie at 1/4th the possible resoution (you'll get 100 more lines than DVD as opposed to 600 lines more).
DVI cables? Digital with no copy protection (even worse in the movie studio's eyes)...
HDMI (The current top of the line)? Eh depends on if your TV maker had the foresight to include all the copy protection stuff that this standard allows for... if not oh well your screwed...
So whats this boil down to?
If you want to use a first gen HDTV you're screwed (no digital/copy protected inputs).
Want to use your computer? You're screwed... unless it was built by an OEM that ensures that the data in encrypted from Disc to motherboard, decoded in the processor, the reencoded by the video card... Oh and you need one of those HDMI cables for your monitor (which I haven't seen as a standard feature on any monitors in my price range).
So yeah, I'm normally an "early adopter" but I'm not touching this stuff with a 10 foot pole. I just hope that alot of other people realize how much the movie studios are trying to screw us over and are atleast asking "Do I get lube with this?"
posted by Unknown at 9:46 AM
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patrick - you've lost me again.
I want to hear more about hanging out with the Austin Ags, or people, or fun political/religious rants, not the latest scam tech companies are pulling to rip us off. :-P Some of us may be nerds, but not that nerdy. ;-)
Sorry this is pseudo political, I could talk about how much Congress is helping the tech and movie companies in screwing us all over.
You could... or you could just change the subject away from tech stuff entirely. ;-) Just a thought...
I hung out with Austin Ags on Friday night - but nobody asked me.
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