Is there anything new there? The option to cripple analog outputs has been around for a very long time now.
The good news, I read a report that Sony claims all the movies they release will NOT utilize this so component only HDTV's are safe (for their releases).
My
guess is that this won't get used very often because of the bad PR it would receive. If somehow they figure piracy is benefiting from being able to record that analog stream perhaps that woudl change. Hope not.
The only other optismistic thing I can come up with would be if the industry did use this a lot, perhaps it could expose the craziness of how DRM is trappling on our 'fair use' to the point that the
masses might actually realize what's going on and give a crap. Right now
we are only a tiny minority that pays attention to this issue and many of
us don't even fully understand it. (I try to thou
)
