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Intel To Produce Cheap LCoS Chips
SeattleGameboy writes "NY Times has an article about Intel's plan to produce low-cost liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) chips. This could result in high-resolution 7"-thick rear-projection TV costing around $1000 by next Christmas (not to mention cheap projectors). I guess I can put off buying a new TV for another year ..."
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Such a powerful marketing and technology combination could blend easily with Microsoft's media center software, which is aimed at using personal computing technology as the heart of home entertainment centers.
That concerns me. Microsoft makes no bones about their "Trusted-this" and "DRM-that" direction. Considering their relationship with Intel I don't doubt that we'll see some sort of DRM crud built right into the TV to "protect consumers from themselves".
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16 - The Intel Corporation is planning to do to digital television what it has already done to computing. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which opens on Jan. 8, Intel is expected to disclose the development of a class of advanced semiconductors that technologists and analysts say will improve the quality of large-screen digital televisions and substantially lower their price, according to industry executives close to the company. Intel's ability to integrate display, television receiver and computer electronics on a single piece of silicon is likely to open new markets for a class of products - including plasma, projection and L.C.D. TV's - that now sell for $3,000 to $10,000. Intel, as well as other large chip manufacturers, should be able to expand the benefits of Moore's Law, named for Gordon Moore, a founder of Intel, which accurately predicted decades ago that computer chips would continue to double in capacity roughly every 18 months, while their price would continue to fall. "I think this brings Moore's Law to digital television," said Richard Doherty, a consumer electronics industry analyst who is president of Envisioneering, a consulting firm based on Long Island. He predicted that the low-cost display technology, which can be incorporated into the traditional rear-projection television sets, could lead to lightweight 50-inch screens only 7 inches thick for about $1,000, perhaps as early as the 2004 holiday season. Intel's expected decision to enter the television market is another powerful indicator of the computer industry's assault on the consumer electronics industry. Both Gateway and Dell are already selling large-screen digital TV's made for them in Asia, and Hewlett-Packard has indicated it will also enter the market. Such a powerful marketing and technology combination could blend easily with Microsoft's media center software, which is aimed at using personal computing technology as the heart of home entertainment centers. The Intel announcement, which is expected to be made at the show by Paul S. Otellini, the company's president and chief operating officer, would come just as high-definition digital television is beginning to take off in the United States. A spokesman for Intel said the company would not comment on Mr. Otellini's presentation to the consumer electronics show. This year, the Consumer Electronics Association, the trade group for the industry, said it expected revenue from digital television sets to surpass revenue from conventional analog sets for the first time. In June, sales of digital sets were running 110 percent ahead of sales in the month a year earlier. The technology Intel has been exploring is known as liquid crystal on silicon. It is one of a number of competing technologies, including a novel approach pioneered by Texas Instruments called digital light processors, or D.L.P. The Texas Instruments approach involves a silicon chip that has hundreds of thousands of microscopic mirrors that can tilt to reflect light. So far, it has been limited to relatively expensive digital TV's. By contrast, the technology used by Intel employs vast arrays of tiny electronic shutters that can alter the amount of reflected light, an approach that may allow companies to make big-screen TV sets using rear-projection technology that matches or exceeds the quality of flat-panel TV's at a much lower cost than plasma and conventional L.C.D. Although Intel is not expected to enter the market for digital televisions for at least a year, Philips Electronics, the Dutch manufacturer, and several American start-up companies have already begun offering liquid crystal on silicon, or LCoS, components and televisions. "LCoS had a Phase 1 in the mid-1990's," said Sandeep Gupta, chief executive of the MicroDisplay Corporation, a chip maker in San Pablo, Calif., that has announced an LCoS chip designed for HDTV applications that is planned for home televisions next year. Many of the companies that introduced the technology at that time, however, quickly failed. Wh
December 17, 2003
New Intel Chip for Digital TV Could Remake the Market
By JOHN MARKOFF
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16 - The Intel Corporation is planning to do to digital television what it has already done to computing.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which opens on Jan. 8, Intel is expected to disclose the development of a class of advanced semiconductors that technologists and analysts say will improve the quality of large-screen digital televisions and substantially lower their price, according to industry executives close to the company.
Intel's ability to integrate display, television receiver and computer electronics on a single piece of silicon is likely to open new markets for a class of products - including plasma, projection and L.C.D. TV's - that now sell for $3,000 to $10,000.
Intel, as well as other large chip manufacturers, should be able to expand the benefits of Moore's Law, named for Gordon Moore, a founder of Intel, which accurately predicted decades ago that computer chips would continue to double in capacity roughly every 18 months, while their price would continue to fall.
"I think this brings Moore's Law to digital television," said Richard Doherty, a consumer electronics industry analyst who is president of Envisioneering, a consulting firm based on Long Island. He predicted that the low-cost display technology, which can be incorporated into the traditional rear-projection television sets, could lead to lightweight 50-inch screens only 7 inches thick for about $1,000, perhaps as early as the 2004 holiday season.
Intel's expected decision to enter the television market is another powerful indicator of the computer industry's assault on the consumer electronics industry.
Both Gateway and Dell are already selling large-screen digital TV's made for them in Asia, and Hewlett-Packard has indicated it will also enter the market. Such a powerful marketing and technology combination could blend easily with Microsoft's media center software, which is aimed at using personal computing technology as the heart of home entertainment centers.
The Intel announcement, which is expected to be made at the show by Paul S. Otellini, the company's president and chief operating officer, would come just as high-definition digital television is beginning to take off in the United States.
A spokesman for Intel said the company would not comment on Mr. Otellini's presentation to the consumer electronics show.
This year, the Consumer Electronics Association, the trade group for the industry, said it expected revenue from digital television sets to surpass revenue from conventional analog sets for the first time. In June, sales of digital sets were running 110 percent ahead of sales in the month a year earlier.
The technology Intel has been exploring is known as liquid crystal on silicon. It is one of a number of competing technologies, including a novel approach pioneered by Texas Instruments called digital light processors, or D.L.P.
The Texas Instruments approach involves a silicon chip that has hundreds of thousands of microscopic mirrors that can tilt to reflect light. So far, it has been limited to relatively expensive digital TV's.
By contrast, the technology used by Intel employs vast arrays of tiny electronic shutters that can alter the amount of reflected light, an approach that may allow companies to make big-screen TV sets using rear-projection technology that matches or exceeds the quality of flat-panel TV's at a much lower cost than plasma and conventional L.C.D.
Although Intel is not expected to enter the market for digital televisions for at least a year, Philips Electronics, the Dutch manufacturer, and several American start-up companies have already begun offering liquid crystal on silicon, or LCoS, components and televisions.
"LCoS had a Phase 1 in the mid-1990's," said Sandeep Gupta, chief executive of the MicroDisplay Corporation, a chip maker in San Pablo, Calif., that ha
As long as they can do everything the HP MP3130 can do, I'll be happy.
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I'd be go do some retractions to my christmas wishlist.
A year? That's not so long to wait. Then again, it's been how many years.
It's about time. Now for some big-screen, high-res fragging.
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I guess I can put off buying a new TV for another year ...
You can always put it off for another year. Eventually you just have to take the plunge and buy it, realizing that you will kick yourself in 6 months when the same product is available for 25 - 50% less. But if you keep putting it off, you'll never buy anything.
I guess I can put off buying a new TV for another year ...
Yeah, that's what I said when I read that HDTV was "right around the corner." In _Commodore Magazine_. In 1988.
Long fucking corner, that's for sure.
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With current DLP projection (front and rear) systems, there is a relatively expensive light bulb to be replaced every 3-5 years at around $200 a pop. If this is the case with the LCOS technology as well, I don't think it will fare as well as predicted. Time will tell.
Are we going to have to upgrade our TVs as often as we upgrade computers?
This article is in the registration free section of NYT
Will there be $1000 panels or $3000 panels with a much higher profit margin?
Then again, there might be a new, huge mass market for large panels...
"Behind Winston's back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously.
Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover,
so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard."
This could result in high-resolution 7"-thick rear-projection TV costing around $1000 by next Christmas (not to mention cheap projectors). I guess I can put off buying a new TV for another year ..."
Yeah, it could result in that. But how long have we been waiting for stuff that could happen in a year. Broadband over power lines rings a bell. If you'd been waiting for that, you'd still be on dialup.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
"that you will kick yourself in 6 months when the same product is available for 25 - 50% less" ...with 25-50% more DRM to prevent you from watching your own content on your own TV.
Can we please, please, PLEASE stop mentioning Moore's Law in every single freaking article about Intel?
What are they going to do: make televisions cost half as much and go twice as fast after 18 months?
Yeah, didn't read that one too closely. Obviously not on NYT...
Blah blah blah Microsoft sucks blah blah blah DRM.
How is the parent insightful?
something to look forward to that doesn't cost 4 grand and actually fits somewhere.
This could result in high-resolution 7"-thick rear-projection TV costing around $1000 by next Christmas
I'm really a non-fan of rear-projection TVs, with their odd image quality and limited viewing angles. I wonder how long it will take this technology to be adapted to large-format, flat panel displays? I for one would be a big fan of a $1,000 42" flat panel display.
Isn't the HP MP3130 more than twice as expensive
as the ~$1000 units based on this technology predicted by Doherty?
"several American start-up companies have already begun offering liquid crystal on silicon, or LCoS, components and televisions."
Toshiba has had an LCoS TV out for quite awhile now. I believe Mitsubishi also has one out. They are super expensive though. Native 1080p resolution and really thin though.
<obscene gesture>I got your 7 inch thick rear projection right here</obscene gesture>
DLP is nice, but a main issue with DLP is that you have to replace the bulbs every 3-4 years. Currently, bulbs for DLP units range anywhere from $300-600, which is no small investment. Of course, DLP is also a projection format, so the viewing angle is not as wide, and from what ones I've seen at the store, the blacks aren't quite as dark as the plasmas or traditional CRTs.
Does the LCoS technology address these issues of screen burn in, viewing angle, accurate colors & brightness, and bulb replacement?
Imagine watching the big game on the SUCKER! I'll be the envy of all my friends...
thats always true to some extent but in this case you have to ask yourself if you will be able to buy a plasma screen next year for a little bit cheaper or a little bit better (for the same cost you'd pay today) against a more cheaper or more better (for the depreciated price). but i doubt they'll ship by next xmas. i.e. this sounds like a significant change in display technology. if you believe them.
ps what's with the sir haxalot hate posts?
AMD has announced it will be producing even lower cost chips that while rated for lower resolution, achieve higher resolution, but only when used with much larger cooling solutions.
The Intel Corporation is planning to do to digital television what it has already done to computing
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Get 3.999998456 digital television sets for the price of 2.00000000 + 2.000000000?
I hope Intel does the right thing and make this chip availible to experimenters as TI refuses to make their reflective mirror chip availible to experimenters. That way you could make your own displays/multiple screen displays. It's too bad companies like TI refuse to sell their (refflective chips) to the exprimenter/small product developers, we have reached an age where nobody works on their own cars anymore or people don't build as much things anymore (we just buy stuff)...I know that it's more expensive to build stuff, but the whole computer revolution was started by people working in their basement/garages developing cool stuff. The high-tech culture we live in is determined to a great extent by the ability of the people around you to be able to develop new products, not just big companies (look at linux). I hope that someday cheap fpga's come around and eventually real cheap nanotech allows everybody the ability to make something new.
I have invented a Central Processing Unit design that allows failed components of the Central Processing Unit to be replaced without replacing the entire Central Processing Unit. The massive Central Processing Unit would be in a grid-like pattern and each failed quadrant of the grid could then be replaced with a new quadrant. The primary failure prone areas such as the Floating Point Unit and system Cache is designed to run on the outside of the core Central Processing Unit. Beneath the primary failure prone construction resides the backup infrastructure. Once a failure is detected the processing moves closer to the Central Processing Unit. What results is a faster computation during a failure. This schematic would allow many layers of redundancy with many higher levels where the highest level is the one that gets re-routed to a layer closer to the Central Processing Unit during a failure and then, if there was a subsequent failure, the level beneath it (which is closer to the core part of the Central Processing unit) is activated. Failed modules such as the Floating Point Unit and system Cache could be replaced while the system is running and then would be engaged to compute information. This idea was invented by Shampoo.
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I am putting of purchasing a new HDTV because I don't understand what the impact of the broadcast flag will be TVs and related products. I will be very upset if my expensive digital TV stops working 2005.
Like your still going to have it in another 3-5 years!
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Why would anyone buy an 80's-inspired, crap-quality Rear Projection set anymore?
Yeah, and those damn cars will never take off either if you have to replace the tires every 3-5 years at $300 a pop
The light bulb (at $200) is a much more significant fraction of the cost of the TV than tires are compared to the cost of a car. Like 5-10% vs 1.5%.
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This is why I haven't bought any LCDs besides my laptop yet. For almost a year now market anaylsis has said Plasmas and HDTV LCD screens are going to drop between 15 and 50 percent in cost, that's just what this is going to do. I almost pity all the people who in a rush to beat the curve and be "cool" bought those 4 or 5 thousand dollar Plasma tvs when if they could've practiced a small degree of self discipline and waited another year and a half could've saved almost 4 grand.
a cheap tv from intel? is the project codename celeron?
Read this to find out...
LCoS is somewhat new, but it's been around and is in current projectors/TVs. The revolution that Intel promises is integrating the display and the driving electronics (HDTV decoders, processors, de-interlacers, menuing systems, etc.) into one monolithic chip to help drive down the entire system cost of an LCoS projector. The chip itself could possibly be more expensive, but the entire board with the electronics on it will be much cheaper.
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I love the wiseass remarks at the end of every news post on here. Its more fun than reading the articles ^^
"In other news, Intel has announced a new 64-bit computing platform costing around $1000 by next Christmas..."
I guess I can put off buying a new computer for another year..."
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The problem with waiting to buy a TV is, all HDTVs made starting in 2005 will have that pesky chip in them that prevents you from recording shows that the broadcaster (or producer) doesn't want you to...
Unless you wait ANOTHER year so you can then find out which models the hackers have figured out a way to circumvent that chip in...
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The current high priced bulky projection TVs may be 1000 bux next year. But im sure any 7" thick lcos whatever will be high-dollar.
Thank you. Drive through. (:wq)
Moore's Second Law: The number of mentions of Moore's first law on slashdot will double every 18 months.
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Ignore this idiot. He claims to invent ideas.
You can't invent ideas. You can only get them.
And then please keep them to yourself, unless they are GOOD ideas!
And it's still not a done deal standard-wise.
Europe runs on a different HDTV standard (for transmission of OTA singles) as does most of the rest of the world. I think the only ones on the USA standard is USA, Canada and South Korea. (And according to discussions on alt.tv.tech.hdtv, South Korea is re-considering their choice.)
Now, can someone please make a television that shows something worth watching?
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
Yeah...it'll cost $1000, and the RIAA will start offering non-DRMed music at a reasonable price in whatever format we want. I absolutely HATE how these types of articles make things sound affordable, simply by adding the qualifier "could". Yeah, it COULD also cost $1, but it'll never happen. When this new technology comes out, they will gouge us for all they can, and the early adopters will pay whatever they ask. Then, once the early adopters have all bought them, then and only then will we start seeing the price drop to a more reasonable level.
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TI will sell you chips and eval reference systems for most of their parts, including the reflective chips.
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bah.
i know this is a joke, but with current generation products, the intel stuff runs a LOT hotter then amd stuff does.
Ever since intel moved to the P4 line, they've had constant heat issues and the only reason its not totally out of control is that the P4 has a kick ass thermal throttle built into it that clocks down the cpu if it starts reaching certain thermal limits. You can even remove the heatsink outright, and the cpu will clock down to something absurb. Clamp the heatsink back on, and the cpu will run up to its mhz rating.
Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
when I can click the ad link at the bottom of the article and "Get A 100" TV Under $20 - Convert any regular television into a big screen TV in under an hour! - www.gobigtv.com"
Wow, we're decades away from having AI good enough to do that! Detecting watermarks in a rectangular video stream is hard, sure. But in the real world? That's basically asking for reliable object and feature extraction from real-world images. This is canonically one of the things humans are incredibly better at than computers. Any watermark visible enough to be detected by a moving camera, at an angle on several axes, in variable lighting, etecetera, would be so blindingly obvious it wouldn't qualify as a watermark.
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So 7" thick rear projection displays are a year away. Holographic storage is perpetually a couple years away from store shelves. They also tell us the problem of OLED lifespan will be solved in a year or two and that we'll be able to buy large OLED displays soon. Let's not forget about fuel cells...they tell us that we'll be able to power our notebooks from fuel cells in 2005. (Hell, what about HalfLife2 and DoomIII? Seems they've been "just around the corner" for a year or two now.)
This is yet another carrot dangling just out of reach, perpetually about a year away from production...
Yeah, and 1024x768 is sub HD. You really want 1280x720 at a minimum. And in order to get as many pixels out of the screen as are being broadcast, you really need 1920x1080.
I've been doing a ton of HD video authoring the last couple months. It's a startling realization to discover that a 1920x1200 23" LCD is the SMALLEST monitor that can be used for this kind of stuff! And for quality grading, I'm sitting there with my nose eight inches from the screen for a couple of hours at a time, looking for minute compression artifacts.
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With DLP this has to do with the spinning color wheel that illuminates the DLP chip with the proper light color. I've read that if they could speed up the spinning by about 5x it wouldn't be noticeable. I guess the reason you see the rainbows is because the colors reach your eye at different times. Someone else can explain it better I'm sure.
I was very excited about LCOS because there's no color wheel and the rainbow problems weren't supposed to be there. I was very disappointed when I went to look at Philips Cineos LCOS units however because I saw rainbows as well. Not as pronounced as DLP, but they were there. Not good.
Luckily soon after that I came across Sony's Grand Wega LCD projection sets. These are beautiful and worth checking out if you want a TV now. I got the 50" one and am extremely happy with it.
What I want to know is what these new chips will have for a native resolution. Will they go with the 1080-line resolution that the new $9000 Toshiba drool factories have, or will they go with the same 720-line resolution that all DLP systems seem mired in. Also, will they be single-chip or triple-chip systems.
If they can make single-chip, 1080-line systems for cheaper than Toshiba... well, I'll be very jealous since I will probably have already paid too much for an inferior product by then, but I ain't holdin' my breath on this one.
if you keep putting it off, you'll never buy anything.
:)
You say that like it's a bad thing.
"The things you own, end up owning you."
-B
LCDs use a passive, reflective backing behind the polarized crystals to produce an opaque display. How about a double layer, with a color LCD over a black LCD? Then we could have LCD windows with video displays, and controllable opacity. Like Tyrell's room in _Blade Runner_, but with movies playing on the inside.
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I don't want to pay the premium for a "small" sales projector. I want a bright(1500+ lumens), SVGA+ projector that I can permanently mount (regardless of bigness) for monitor and movie use, for under $1000. Where is it?
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Yes, it's true that Intel is certainly among the leaders in semiconductor manufacturing, based upon their process nodes. On the other hand, Intel has shown an amazing capacity for mucking up new markets it's entered into: the i740, the Itanium, mobile CPUs for laptops, and integrated processors like the Timna. It's also illustrative to note that, over time, they usually get it right. It just won't be next year--that's my guess, anyway.
Only thing - I never seem to see anything go pass vaporware mode.
I saw an article on slashdot about flat panel CRTs made using inkjet technology to print on glass. The article claimed sub $500 large screen flat panel high definition displays within 3 years. I can't find the story now. Anyone got a link?
Intel will release these new LCoS televisions which revolutionize the entire home entertainment and television industry, opening the doors for hundreds of other companies. In about 20 years or so one of these companies will make a comparable product and sell it cheaper. Then Slashdotters will be slamming Intel for not ever contributing anything significant.
Microsoft should hire me. I can write code that doesn't work faster than the guys they have doing it now.
Doesn't anyone see the opportunity here for companies to use this cheaper process to maximise profit for themselves? Cheaper production doesnt necessarily mean cheaper consumer products. Especially if there is a high demand.
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I used to own a 42" Plasma (Panny EDTV 848x480 $4000). However, had I known how good projectors were nowadays, I would never would have bought it.
Currently I own a Sanyo PLV-70 ($4,500 1366x768) with a 105" Dalite HiPower screen ($350). And it's almost like a 105" plasma!
HDTV looks awesome. And DVD's look pretty good too. Finding Nemo is one of the best looking ones so far... But the hardware really needs Hi Definition material to shine. 480 just don't cut it at that size. Hollywood needs to get their butt in gear.
And with a DVI input, I've connected my computer and played Unreal2, MotoGP2, Vice City, etc. at 16:9 widescreen at 1360x768. Sick!
And you can do email, surf the web and everything with the 3D gyro mouse and keypad. Completely useable as a computer screen.
I can only hope Half Life 2 and Doom 3 properly support widescreen.
And if you ever decide to move, the PJ weighs about 20lbs. Compare that to a 90lb plasma that's fragile as hell, or a giant rear projection system.
Bulbls are expensive, at around $400. But totally worth it as it'll last me at least a year. No plasma burn in fears.
If I had to do it again I would get a screen no larger than 80" as everything but HDTV material looks crappy at 105". DVD's, cable TV, etc just don't have enough resolution. Can't wait for WM9 and other HD material... and maybe there will be an affordable native 1920x1080 projector by then.
In the meantime, I think I'll go pickup Max Payne 2 and MS Flight Simulator and play them in HD.
When was the last time you recorded anything from the output on your TV and not directly from the source?
If they really do get the price that low, I might even buy some of their overpriced CPU's for some of my servers, just to thank them!
; )
steve
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
with broadcast HDTV, you're going to need a tuner, whether it's in the TV or in the recording device. All tuners will have this new circuit. Your TIVO will be useless.
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It is in a lower league. The resolution is very relevant, as is the fact that Toshiba uses independent chips for the seperate colors ... only because they are relevant to image quality though. Any enthousiast would throw away the rest of what you mention for image quality in a hartbeat though. Features are irrelevant, what matters is the picture it puts on your retina.
I seriously doubt format conversion from Toshiba is up to snuff with Philips's though, but that is mostly just relevant to PAL users.
Sucks to be one of the people that have bought into the LCD TV fad. LCD technology is much too unwieldy when stretched to TV proportions. They might be bragging to the neighbors now, but come next Xmas, they're going to be wishing they weren't so unscrupulous. /me kisses his Viewsonic CRT.
'nuff said.
As I understand it, this broadcast flag is going to have to be backwards compatable with older HDTV tuners. So, all the basic HDTV info will be there in a format that current tuners understand, and there will be an additional flag that isn't even seen by current tuners. With the signal segregated in this way, I imagine it will be trivial, with a little knowledge about the HDTV signal format, to strip out the broadcast flag, or flip its bits to make say "record all you want" instead of "copyrighted - don't record." All you'll need is a little box between your cable line and your tuner, with a FPGA with the correct logic on it, and you're done.
Yes, the Mitnick/Shimomura thing was an ethical and professional atrocity. But except for that, John Markoff has been a consistently excellent writer - he actually understands technology, and has some reasonable clues about what the stuff means and what's important, and can do competent explanations to the public. He's a real contrast to a lot of the "technical" press, which too often is just regurgitating press releases.
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we have reached an age where nobody works on their own cars anymore or people don't build as much things anymore (we just buy stuff)
What are you talking about? I do all my own car work, and there's a fairly large subculture of people who do the same, judging by what I read on a lot of automotive enthusiast sites I frequent. A lot of less-dedicated people don't work on their cars anymore because they've become lazy and don't want to learn anything new.
Another point I forgot to mention: look at all the auto parts stores all over: Checker, Pep Boys, Advance, Auto Zone, etc. These places wouldn't be around, and placing commercials on TV, if there weren't plenty of non-mechanics working on their own cars.