RE: Advice on behind LCD connections etc

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm... not sure its fair to say that the media companies haven't learnt
this time around....

from what (admittedly little) I've read on the subject of HDCP, they *have*
anticipated that the keys will be cracked, and have allowed for this in the
protocol, by allowing the keys to be changed by the content providers at
will... I understand that the media can be used to distribute new keys to
the hardware.... presumably this could also be over the air, and thus (in
theory) Sky could enforce an update of the decryption keys in all your
HDCP-compliant hardware devices at the drop of a hat...

I reiterate that I am by no means an expert on this though, so I eagerly
await to be better informed by someone more knowledgeable than I....

Paul G.


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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx on behalf of Mal Lansell
Sent: Wed 21/12/2005 20:25
To: UKHA_D Group
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...
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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.
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>Paul G
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