RE: Advice on behind LCD connections etc

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All good points, and all perfectly true of course. However....

If I understand correctly, HDCP is a DRM mechanism that sits on top of the
HDMI protocol, and thus its *use* is optional... - content providers can,
if they choose, publish HD material that doesn't implement it... (how
likely that is to happen is of course a different matter!)  I may have
understood that incorrectly of course, but that's the impression that I
came away with having read a couple of articles on the web... - I'm
informed by *cough* a knowledgeable friend, that the porn industry is often
a champion of these kinds of policies, and are usually to be found at the
forefront of the technology curve and aren't as ridiculously paranoid about
DRM as the rest of the content industry...

Then there's the next-gen of gaming consoles which all are going to support
HD, and not all of them will use HDCP on the HD signal.. - the xbox 360 for
example doesn't use HDMI or (I believe) HDCP in any form, and provides its
HD output over component... Rumour has it that the first iteration of Sky's
HD digibox will also output HD over component and thus will be unrestrained
by HDCP... so I'm kinda hoping that I can get at least some HD content to
show on my nice new HD screen without having to bend over and and let the
copyright owners give it to me up the **se...

We shall, as they say, see....

Paul G.

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx on behalf of LeeUKHA
Sent: Wed 21/12/2005 21:14
To: UKHA_D Group
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Advice on behind LCD connections etc



True, but that was before things like the DMCA that make it seriously
illegal to even think about hacking to a closed system...

The DMCA isn't like the old anti-hacking laws...  And it's going to
spread to Europe, due to the expensive 'lobbying' that going on...

Where will it all end???

> I think Sony are prime example of how not to use 'copy protection' or
> whatever it was the attempted to do.
>
>
>
> It's the same 'ol story, someone creates a country region code for
dvd's,
> the next you can by region free players, the same goes for anything!
>
>
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
>   _____
>
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Mal Lansell
> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 8:26 PM
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] 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...
> >
> >"HDMI supports HDCP".
> >
> >*bzzzzzt* not interested. Move along now.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >I.
> >
> >-----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
> >
> >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....
> >
> >Just my 2p.
> >
> >Paul G
> >
> >