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Xbox 360 Coming With HDMI Port?
GeekGod writes "Images of an Xbox 360 motherboard with HDMI-port have been leaked on the internet. So it looks like Microsoft will follow into Sony's footsteps and release an Xbox 360 with a digital video output. This might also come in handy for their future HD-DVD addon, certainly when movies will get HDCP-protected."
This might also come in handy for their future HD-DVD addon, certainly when movies will get HDCP-protected."
All currently available HD DVD and the upcoming Blu-Ray titles are HDCP protected. When they're sent as a digital signal over HDMI or DVI to displays that support HDCP, they're encrypted. The Image Constraint Token (ICT)- part of the standard which halves the resolution when a movie is diplayed over unencrypted DVI or analog outputs- just hasn't been put to use yet, making HDCP non-mandatory.
You forgot Universal. And between them, we have what's known as The Big Six - the six biggest movie studo parent corporations, making up the majority of mass-marketed films in the country. One of the few other potentially major players-to-be in the market, the Weinstein Company, has a distribution deal with MGM, subsidiary of Sony. So when you say "a few movie studios", you mean the ones that make almost all the movies that will make it to an HD format, and the ones who people are most worried about using DRM schemes.
THe Xbox 360 was designed with hdmi in mind. If I can refer you to http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=319&prod ucts_id=8540 they have a place holder for an official Microsoft HDMI cable for the 360 to be shipped sometime this fall with the release of the HD-DVD add-on. While they may release a newer version of the xbox 360 the older ones will still work just fine.
Not neccesarily true - according to http://www.hdmi.org/manufacturer/faq.asp , HDCP reduces the royalty cost of including HDMI on equipment, but is not actually a requirement for HDMI.
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