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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."
You're either 90 years old or an arrogant prick. Which is it?
I am a fan of copyright protection -- it's a good thing. It lets movies happen.
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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?
I, for one, welcome our new Antichrist overlord.
In the US, 1/3 of the students entering High School will not graduate. Only half of the graduates has taken the college or university entry classes. (1/3 of the students entering High School - you really should be able to come up with this number (1/3) yourself!). There is also another drop from people entering college/university and completing it. Science overall is going down as more and more people opt for Arts classes.
You add it up and then read the "When will these idiots get it?". The answer is already there.
Going without TV used to be something people wore as a badge of honor. It was dubious then, and makes you a downright luddite these days. Why? Because there's so much GOOD stuff out there that you loose social and intellectual currency by not exposing yourself to the good stuff.
Your whole post is beyond laughable that it treads into ludicrous territory. You don't like restrictions, yet you play video games, quite possibly the most restricted (in terms of shareability) items today. You support the arts, but when it crosses a certain line, you advocate pirating it instead. Hey dumbshit, if something has been slammed into hard core DRM and you can no longer do anything but pirate it to access it, you're just helping it along! The artist should be punished because he signed up with producers that would shove DRM all over something, right? Well teach him a lesson and DON'T support their art - and that goes far beyond monetary compensation (ie, purchasing a book, dvd, whatever). MINDSHARE is much more important to artists... and you encourage pirating to raise their mindshare... which just prompts them to continue to use DRM because hey, it may have sucked previously, but people still checked it out! But don't buy it, because it all sucks. Whoops, we're right at the beginning of your argument.
Go take a fucking logic class first, clueless one. I would put together a much more coherent explanation, but it's clear that it would be lost on you.