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Goodbye, HD Component Video
glogger writes "Jim Willcox, the video expert at Consumer Reports, bids farewell to our ability to get high-definition video via the analog component-video connections on Blu-ray players. Thanks to Hollywood pirate-paranoia, potentially millions of law-abiding viewers will have their choices restricted. Quoting: 'Hollywood studios now have the right to insert an ICT "flag" into a Blu-ray movie; if it detects that a player is using an analog connection that doesn't support HDCP, it downconverts the video's 1080p (1920 by 1080) native resolution to 960 by 540 (540p): better than DVD quality but only about one-quarter of full HD quality. This ensures that high-def video is available only through the copy-protected HDMI outputs.'"
Doesn't matter. Once consumers get hit by this they will freak out and the studios will find out how much of a bad idea this is.
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Was I the only one who read the blueray tag as 'blurry'?
"This ensure that high-def video is available only through the copy-protected HDMI outputs or from Bittorrent"?
Damn dyslexia...
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
Yes....when calling someone stupid, you have to be extra careful and be grammatically correct. Otherwise, you come off looking like a moran.