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CD manufacturers say we're pirates and wipe their plentiful posteriors with the Redbook standard...
DVD manufacturers giggle with glee at the inclusion of Macrovision, adding false sync pulses in the vBlank interval, using the NTSC/PAL/SECAM standards as TP, TP for their bungholes.
And then the whole "5.1 discrete audio? Not unless it comes out analog!" thing...
Now... this... someone get me my shovel. Said it before, I'll say it again. Time to go back to books and live theatre.
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Looks like HD DVD players sales just dropped a few more million.
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Someone will come up with a hardware hack that ignores the flag and get sued, but not before the hack is released to the wild. Hardware vendors will tweak their newer products so the hack doesn't work, but somone else wil figure out how to circumvent that one, too. Leapfrog is a fun game.
Before the third round of revisions and hacks take place, the issue will be moot because analog HD will have died.
You saw it here first. 
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Almost makes you want to go back to vinyl. Maybe this watching movies in your home wasn't such a good idea, either. This just might make DVD-A successful.
Last edited by littleb; 04/20/06 08:57 PM.
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The hack will be difficult. The spec requires that the device be updateable so that such hacks can be overridden. Enjoy our brave new, DRMed world...
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All the philosophical issues of copy protection notwithstanding, how many pre-DVI and HDMI sets have 1080 native resolution anyway?
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It's not necessarily a matter of DVI and HDMI. It's a matter of whether those inputs are HDCP compliant. And I bet there are a bunch that aren't. And it's not like they're knocking it down to 720 (and there's plenty of those out there), they're knocking it down to 540 (potentially).
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I find it hard to believe that they are making these players so consumer unfriendly. With Sony having BlueRay on the PS3 and now Microsoft announcing they will be having a HDDVD add on for the 360, the stakes are getting mighty high.
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We, the consumer, can always choose not to buy!!!
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