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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."
How many other people are having trouble typing HDCP? ;)
My fingers automatically type DHCP instead
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You have a god-given right to (re)purchase Top Gun and T2?
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
Your proposal is acceptable to us.
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"Who, then, precisely, does Hollywood think is going to buy this DRM-encumbered garbage?"
I think their ultimate goal would be... Everyone.
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You're logic is compelling. It is good to know that I owned the Harry Potter books before JK Rowling wrote them.
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They'll probably connect it using a $20 "digital" S-Video cable too.
That's why I bought the $189.95 digital enhanced S-Video broadband cable with gold connectors and OO-gauge double-shielded oxygen free wire for my 50" hi-def set. (According to the package, unlike normal cables, this one prevents the common waveguide harmonic interference that shears the digital encoding algorithm of the cable's colorspace.)
I got mine for a pretty big discount -- for this kind of performance you would probably end up paying more like $240, but for some reason the salesman was in a really good mood the day that I came in. He even threw in an extended warranty on the cable for half price -- a $69.95 value!
There's no point in dropping $6K on a tv if you don't have a good digital cable between it and the VCR.
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