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<< Unfortunately for consumers, the new encryption schemes mean that if you have purchased a display device before the fall of 2002, there is a 90% chance that you will not be able to watch digital HDTV media on your display. Unless your device has a DVI HDCP connector on it, you will be limited to a 480p analog signal (or a 480p digital signal if you have DVI DTCP connector) from digital sources, including HD-DVD, HD Satellite, and HD-Cable. There are a few content sources now that provide 1080i analog, but they can't offer the digital connections on the same unit per the license agreements. Expect to see these 1080i analog devices disappear fast, because the studios consider them a threat. They probably consider all 50,000,000 computer jocks in the world a threat for that matter. And for good reason.
Before you get mad at the salesman that sold you that $12,000 HDTV or $50,000 plasma, keep this in mind; the salesman probably didn?t know. The electronics industry kept this secret under wraps as long as they could. After all, who would buy a HDTV device if they knew it would be obsolete in less than 2 years? But, just because it has a DVI input doesn?t mean it supports HDCP, so check before you buy!
You should be mad at the studios! Unfortunately, the studios don't care, although they should. They know very well that the average consumer doesn?t make a living copying digital media. Those who do make a living copying digital content have always found a way to crack or get around the content protection schemes. In fact, HDCP has already been cracked. We think the problem is not about money. It's about power. The studios want to have absolute control over their content, even at the expense of consumers losing faith in their industry and losing sales. The beauty is that they will lose all of these things . . . control, credibility, and money, because consumers are smarter than the studios are. Do the studios think that consumers are vindictive? No. Are consumers vindictive? You bet. Note to the studios: Just watch us.
HDTV is not really new. It has been around since 1981. But, the studios have restricted the release of digital media until they felt that they could have sufficient control over it, a control that will never be possible. This control has not nor will it ever ?protect? the consumer?s interests, only the studios. In fact their implementation of these restrictions will cause major consumer backlash as we all see what has transpired, and how much it has cost us. If anything, the deceit and confusion over DVI and DTCP will only make the adoption of HDTV and HD-DVD harder.
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<< Unfortunately for consumers, the new encryption schemes mean that if you have purchased a display device before the fall of 2002, there is a 90% chance that you will not be able to watch digital HDTV media on your display. Unless your device has a DVI HDCP connector on it, you will be limited to a 480p analog signal (or a 480p digital signal if you have DVI DTCP connector) from digital sources, including HD-DVD, HD Satellite, and HD-Cable. There are a few content sources now that provide 1080i analog, but they can't offer the digital connections on the same unit per the license agreements. Expect to see these 1080i analog devices disappear fast, because the studios consider them a threat. They probably consider all 50,000,000 computer jocks in the world a threat for that matter. And for good reason.
Before you get mad at the salesman that sold you that $12,000 HDTV or $50,000 plasma, keep this in mind; the salesman probably didn?t know. The electronics industry kept this secret under wraps as long as they could. After all, who would buy a HDTV device if they knew it would be obsolete in less than 2 years? But, just because it has a DVI input doesn?t mean it supports HDCP, so check before you buy!
You should be mad at the studios! Unfortunately, the studios don't care, although they should. They know very well that the average consumer doesn?t make a living copying digital media. Those who do make a living copying digital content have always found a way to crack or get around the content protection schemes. In fact, HDCP has already been cracked. We think the problem is not about money. It's about power. The studios want to have absolute control over their content, even at the expense of consumers losing faith in their industry and losing sales. The beauty is that they will lose all of these things . . . control, credibility, and money, because consumers are smarter than the studios are. Do the studios think that consumers are vindictive? No. Are consumers vindictive? You bet. Note to the studios: Just watch us.
HDTV is not really new. It has been around since 1981. But, the studios have restricted the release of digital media until they felt that they could have sufficient control over it, a control that will never be possible. This control has not nor will it ever ?protect? the consumer?s interests, only the studios. In fact their implementation of these restrictions will cause major consumer backlash as we all see what has transpired, and how much it has cost us. If anything, the deceit and confusion over DVI and DTCP will only make the adoption of HDTV and HD-DVD harder.
>>
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