Goodbye, HD Component Video · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 18, 2011 @08:15AM from the pixels-are-a-privilege-not-a-right dept.

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.'"

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Did anyone else read it as: by jbeaupre · 2011-02-18 08:41 · Score: 5, Funny

"This ensure that high-def video is available only through the copy-protected HDMI outputs or from Bittorrent"?
Damn dyslexia...

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Re:Confused by FriendlyPrimate · 2011-02-18 09:03 · Score: 4, Funny

Yes....when calling someone stupid, you have to be extra careful and be grammatically correct. Otherwise, you come off looking like a moran.