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New HDTV Encryption Obsoletes Sets
Brian Weatherhead writes "I wrote an article, detailing the MPAA's control over your HDTV. Their new standards will make any HDTV bought before 2002 obsolete!
Consumers will be upset to say the least." Talks
about the different formats for video signals, and
copy protection methods for those signals. And yes,
if this goes down, anyone with an HDTV without DVI input
could very well be watching 480p signals when HDTV
standardizes. Fortunately at the rate this stuff has
been happening, those TVs will long since have died.
But one thing is for sure- with the DMCA, and these
new video formats, PVRs could become a thing of the
past.
Go for it. I think that one of the things that brings out the assholes on the Net is that they think there'll be no consequences for their actions. They think they'll never get caught. A rude awakening every now and then is a good thing.
That light you see at the end of the tunnel might be from an oncoming train.
This is not a bug in slashcode, it'd a bug in how internet explorer handles wraping. It only seems to bother internet explorer. (konqueror and netscape still wrap it)
I think that with one or two exceptions (Lenny Briscoe is my hero!), #2 has already happened.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
To quote from the late, great Calvin & Hobbes: "Verbing weirds language." Posts like this pose the danger of illiterating Slashdot readers if they are allowed to continue.
Cheers,
IT
Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.