HD DVD to Screw Early HDTV Adopters

Dougsnake

Dougsnake

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Doesnt bode well for guys who dashed out for a supposedly hdtv early....
AACS says the new players won't output a full-HD signal from their component-video connections, since those jacks are analog instead of digital and thus have no copy protection. The 'down-rezzed' signals will be limited to a resolution of 960 x 540 pixels -- exactly one-quarter the 1,920 x 1,080 pixels
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/24/1333207&from=rss

glad i didnt fill my urge to get a new tv last year and makes me not want to get one now at all ,guess ill hang on a bit longer now mind saying that the new models seem to be on the ball now but it still makes me wonder.......still life in my old jvc WS crt yet :p
 
There have been a few of these articals floating round the net today and i realy can see where they are comming from or why people are shocked about it, for along time now they have said that both HD-DVD and Blueray will have to be HDCP compliant to appease the movie companies and its been known for along time that only HDMI and DVI will be HDCP compliant so why sites are now mentioning this is strange.

Andy
 
In the US alone there are more than three million HD sets that have component only inputs so there are going to be a fair few unhappy people out there.

(happy with my 40" Bravia and it's HDMI input :) )
 
One of the U.S. sites I read mentioned this a week or two ago (I posted about it in the anime thread).

According to the Anime On DVD site, the spec will call for the lower res output to be an option for analogue connections to HDTV's, it won't be mandatory, but something the content providers can decide to use, or not to use at their discretion (rather like Macrovision and region coding on DVD's*).
It's also not going to happen in Japan, they have a huge market penetration of HDTV sets with older inputs (componant and d-sub15), and the consumer protection laws there would make it illegal to do - so Japanse models are likely to have that option flat out disabled ;)

What this could mean is that companies won't use the lower res option, but instead use the fact they are not using it as a marketting thing "will paly in high res on ALL HD sets".


I'm not sure how many content providers won't use it, as I know a lot of them don't really give a damn for their customers, but I know some who almost certainly wont (normally the smaller companies for whom keeping customers happy is very important as they need customer support to survive).



*I've got several here that are legitimate but don't have them, in the case of macrovision it's mainly from a couple of small publishers who listened to what their customers wanted (and in once case recalled/swapped out discs that had accidently had macrovision applied by the replication plant/authoring facility).
 
So utterly pointless, how many pirate dvd's are made by people hooking up dvd players to recording devices? Should have put their efforts into the encryption to stop people being able to open the disc contents on a pc.

Added to that the fact that people don't care about the quality of pirate copies not to mention the blank discs and recording devices are going to be too expensive for a fair while to make mass production of pirate copies worthwhile.
 
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