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DVD Player With DVI Output

Posted by timothy on from the firewire-would-be-nice-too dept.

ffierling writes "Why are there no big name DVD Players with digital video outputs? With all the available digital displays (LCD, plasma, DLP, etc) and the obvious benefits of an all-digital connection, it's easy to conclude the threat of litigation from copyright holders is holding up the big name manufacturers. So how is it V Inc. can sell their Bravo D1 DVD Player with DVI output? Are they below the MPAA's radar, or just quicker to market?"

6 of 355 comments (clear)

  1. Another Review by NeoMoose · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you pick up last month's Official Xbox Magazine they did a review and gave it a 9.0 out of 10 score. Apparently they loved it. If you want more information on it, track down someone with the magazine.

    The main problem I have with this DVD player is that it DOESN'T seem to be available in many, if any, retail outlets.

  2. SDI hacks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are additional boards available to hack most decent DVD's players so they output SDI, which is a raw professional 270Mbps standard for digital interconnects. Most broadcast quality Plasma screens include an SDI input, and companies like Delphi produce them for the consumer market, and I've seen DVB-s digital tv set-top-boxes also hacked for SDI output, they look very good since the needless D>A>D process is removed.

  3. Other DVI Players by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not true - Samsung has the DVD-HD931 which has been out on the market for a few months now. It has DVI output.

    The Bravo D1 is better, but hey.

    Expect other large consumer electronics manufacturers to have their models out within a few months.

  4. wrong conclusion by poptones · · Score: 5, Informative
    the "industry agreement" is that no DVD players will have RGB outputs - and this one doesn't have those, either. DVI is "secure" and component has been on players for ages. And it would be pretty well pointless to have a high rez player (as this one is obviously intended) that wouldn't support contemporary hi rez displays.

    What's most funny is that no one today would likely think of "ripping" a DVD from a capture card, just because all it takes is a $50 DVD drive and a braindead piece of software. And yet the manufacturers stick by their "no RGB" guns as if it actually means something.

    BTW my "DVD player" does have RGB outputs. It also has a macrovision-less s-vid output.

    Duh...

  5. Re:More at Home Theater Forum by Osty · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lovely! Those links are referred right back to Slashdot. That's one way to avoid a slashdotting.


    Other good home theater sites:


  6. Re:DVI has copy protection by dschuetz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Fool! DVI is an encrypted data stream!

    Fool! DVI is an all-digital video connection standard, that supports optional encryption! (well mostly all-digital, if you ignore the optional analog compatibility connection)

    (though I will agree that most likely any DVD player supporting DVI will be using encryption).

    I think it's called HDCP, or High Defintion Copy Protection, or somesuch.

    More interesting is a DVD player that up-converts to 1080i -- I've read conflicting reports on whether those are "allowed" by the DVD manufacturer's agreement. But get that, and support for the MS (ugh) HDTV-lite codec (like on the new T2 disc) and you're in busines. Sort of.