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."

Comments

Re:That's OK, I wasn't going to pay for it anyway.

[pomo monster]

You're either 90 years old or an arrogant prick. Which is it?

Re:You know, this will encourage the worst piracy.

[sabat]

I am a fan of copyright protection -- it's a good thing. It lets movies happen.

Only because you guys have the idea that a movie is a piece of "property," like it's a pair of shoes or something.

Copyright protection gives you the freedom to produce winning efforts like Mr. and Mrs. Smith and The Dukes of Hazzard. Nice work, there.

Maybe if someone got off his ass and came up with a business model that didn't try to shoe-horn scarcity into a medium that automatically creates plentitude ...

Nahhhh. We just need some new encryption. Yeah, that's it. And -- what was the name of that one '60s TV show about the talking car? My Mother, The Car, yeah! It's gold, box office gold. Oh, they did that one already? Has there been a sequel yet?