Renting HD movies (iTunes)
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Yeah the OS, GPU the connection from the GPU to the monitor and the monitor itself all have to support HDCP or you can't rent HD movies
Wow I never knew this - is it the same for purchases or just rentals?
Ah, cheers, it does say this on the help section (which i didnt read 
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Yeah, but the 'old' way takes more effort...but I suppose it save me having to buy a new monitor, just to be able to watch HD movies 
) There's a very easy solution to this...
I'm hitting this sort of problem with my music subscription service, doesn't play on various devices I have... I'm very tempted to go back to doing what I did before.
Yeah, but the 'old' way takes more effort
...but I suppose it save me having to buy a new monitor, just to be able to watch HD movies It used to be video tapes, now it's torrents and newsgroups.
Most people are decent, and the studios/labels know this - however it is the rights holders (or the group the studios has leased the rights to too manage on their behalf) which have the final say here.
For example in Germany there's only one group who hold all the rights and over the past 8 months have raised the royalties to the point where grooveshark has withdrawn from the county and even google won't pay them. It's costing sony a fortune in youtube advertising revenue but they handed their rights to the wrong people (lawyers) that got greedy.
Same story with regional content e.g. netflix uk/us.
Most of the time you'll find you can't actually pay the people no matter how much you want to, which brings us back to the first line...
The one plus is apple managed to finally talk the labels around to drm free music which only increased sales, studios are fighting that with a draconian mentality tbh. Ultra Violet isn't even here (doomed to fail from initial conception) and there's talk of a second standard already.
P.S. apples encoding on itunes is appalling.
Most people are decent, and the studios/labels know this - however it is the rights holders (or the group the studios has leased the rights to too manage on their behalf) which have the final say here.
For example in Germany there's only one group who hold all the rights and over the past 8 months have raised the royalties to the point where grooveshark has withdrawn from the county and even google won't pay them. It's costing sony a fortune in youtube advertising revenue but they handed their rights to the wrong people (lawyers) that got greedy.
Same story with regional content e.g. netflix uk/us.
Most of the time you'll find you can't actually pay the people no matter how much you want to, which brings us back to the first line...
The one plus is apple managed to finally talk the labels around to drm free music which only increased sales, studios are fighting that with a draconian mentality tbh. Ultra Violet isn't even here (doomed to fail from initial conception) and there's talk of a second standard already.
P.S. apples encoding on itunes is appalling.
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I keep finding movies that you can rent in HD but only buy in SD..... total fail. I'd dearly love to buy Krull in HD but no-go...