HighDef Content to Require New Monitors

QT writes "Ars Technica has an interesting article on how HDCP figures into Microsoft and Apple's future OS plans. Not only will future HD content not play in pure HD on most existing monitors (it will be degraded, or not shown at all), but high-end monitors today don't support HDCP yet. HDCP has been coming for 3+ years, but geek fantasy items such as Apple's $3,000 30" Cinema Display don't even have support for it yet! The end result is that when Windows Vista ships (and Apple's next OS), most people won't be able to watch protected HD content on their computers."

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[plasmacutter]

how microsoft is selling out the public to please hollywood

microsoft is incorporating a lot more than HDCP restriction requirements in their winhec standards. They are also building in encrypted "protected media path", allowing revocation of components in vista based PC's and requiring hardware and driver based DRM for "windows logo testing approval"

They are also requiring a new form of device ID which is designed to prevent any emulation without contacting the emulated device's originator

I tried to give slashdot the heads up on this over a month ago and, like a fellow poster, my story was rejected.

There's a reason Vista took so long to develop, and that reason has nothing to do with consumer-centric design