The Great HDCP Fiasco

Toasty16 writes "According to an article on Firingsquad, our shiny new Radeon and Geforce cards won't be able to play HDCP-encrypted content, even though they have been advertising HDCP support as a feature for a few generations. Want to watch that new Blu-ray movie on your custom built PC at full resolution? Sorry, retail graphics cards won't be able to do that; only OEM-built computers from Dell, Sony, HP and the like will have that functionality built in."

Comments

Re:Calling DVD Jon

[Grey Ninja]

I can assure you that I am NEVER buying a Blu-Ray player. I might consider an HD-DVD player, as it doesn't seem to have such an anti-consumer stance. I am not all that big on piracy. I try to buy the movies I really care about. I like to have that nice shiny disc, and the box to put it in. But if HD-DVD loses the format war... then it's piracy all the way for me.

Regardless, we DO need DVD-Jon to help us out again this time. It's because of him that I can watch movies in Linux. And if Blu-Ray reigns supreme over HD-DVD, it will only be through him that we are able to watch Blu-Ray movies. Because buying a player that content makers can brick because they don't like what you're doing... or not being able to watch any sort of movie on your computer because the content providers don't like the fact that you might want to pirate the movie? They are basically treating us all as criminals. And I don't like that any more than when I walk into a store and they request my backpack. I refuse them, why must I accept Sony treating me like a thief?

Re:Calling DVD Jon

[mrchaotica]

I might consider an HD-DVD player, as it doesn't seem to have such an anti-consumer stance.

Although Blu-Ray is worse, HD-DVD is bad enough. I'm not buying either one.