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HD DVD to Screw Early HDTV Adopters
orionware writes "Apparently the folks who designed the Advanced Access Content System (AACS)for the new HD DVD formats have decided to stick it to the early HDTV adopters. If your set used the older component video, expect to watch your new HD DVD at a quarter of the resolutions. To thwart piracy of course." From the article: "AACS says the new players won't output a full-HD signal from their component-video connections, since those jacks are analog instead of digital and thus have no copy protection. The 'down-rezzed' signals will be limited to a resolution of 960 x 540 pixels -- exactly one-quarter the 1,920 x 1,080 pixels that you'll get through the copy-protected digital connectors on the players. The potentially huge problem with this strategy is that the only HD inputs on a lot of older HDTVs are component video."
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When did this happen????
That will probably be illegal do to DMCA. But who cares, everything is illegal due to DMCA these days.
You make your product sufficiently inconvenient and/or expensive that I decide not to buy it. Some smart chap (or chapette) from China or India starts importing players and media that do not have these restrictions. I buy them from him/her instead or I forego video pleasures for other entertainments. Your stock price goes down, you lose your house in Aruba, and ice weasels kill and eat your children.
You lose, I win.
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
Your stock price goes down, you lose your house in Aruba, and ice weasels kill and eat your children.
Everyone knows that there are no ice weasels in Aruba. It's the zombie chickens that you have to be afraid of if you end up living on the streets there.
I propose a new slogan for the rebellion that will strike fear into Aruba-living executives everywhere:
"Down with the HD-DVD Consortium! Long live zombie chickens!"
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!