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Re: Advice on behind LCD connections etc



Personally I'll just wait for the inevitable crack/modchip.  The media
companies will never learn.  Sigh.

Mal


Ian Lowe wrote:

>Good thoughts, up until you see...
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>"HDMI supports HDCP".
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>*bzzzzzt* not interested. Move along now.
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>DVD is already too restricted thanks, I'm not signing up to *any*
technology
>which won't even display the content that you have purchased because it
>decides that it doesn't like the combination of devices.
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>Basically, whilst I quite fancy the whole HD thing, I'm going to stick
with
>regular SD technology util we see rather more common sense come to the
whole
>copyright/IP debacle. Of course, that may well mean no Vista, no next
gen
>GFX cards etc... Hey, I'll live.
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>I.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
>Paul Gordon
>Sent: 21 December 2005 09:35
>To: UKHA_D Group
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Advice on behind LCD connections etc
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>FWIW, I would *definitely* put in a HDMI cable now, while you have the
>chance.... - I guarantee that before long, you will see MCE PC's with
HDMI
>out's fitted, and graphics cards with HDMI outs can't be far away
either...
>The cost of a few metres of HDMI cable is as nothing to the annoyance
you
>might feel in 2 or 3 years time when you have loads of components that
are
>HDMI equipped and you can't get that signal to the screen....
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>Just my 2p.
>
>Paul G
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