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Xbox One's HDMI Pass-Through Can Connect PS4, PCs and More
MojoKid writes "The Xbox One has both HDMI-in and HDMI-out capability. The point of HDMI-in is to allow you to hook up a cable box, with output then running from the Xbox One to your television. As it turns out, however, that's not the only thing the Xbox One can do. Since the HDMI-in port is a standard option, it can accept video input from a PS4 and also accept a video stream from a PC. According to Xbox senior director of product management, Albert Panello, "any application can be snapped to a game... this could be the live TV feed, so if you wanted to play Ryse and Killzone (a PS4 exclusive), you could snap that." Keep in mind, snapping a title to the Xbox One doesn't mean that you can actually keep using Xbox One controllers in the game. If you want to snap in a PS4 game, you still need PS4 controllers. If you want to hook a PC into the Xbox One's video output, you still need mouse and keyboard, though if the Xbox One's controllers are eventually PC compatible, then you might be able to use the same controller on both platforms without doing much more than flipping a switch."
Socket accepts plugs it's designed to accept. What's the story?
The story is that the XBox violates the HDCP standard to do this; It has to decrypt protected content, in order to display it. There's three ways they could have done it; Analog conversion somewhere in line, a signed key for a device which essentially does the one thing HDCP was supposed to never allow, or they hacked the protocol / used unpublished knowledge. Either way... When the XBox launches, someone's going to take it apart, and then encrypted HDMI can bend over and kiss it's curvy ass goodbye.
Oh, right... marketing blurb. Right, was supposed to focus on that instead. Sorry slashdot... I forgot you aren't a geek site anymore, just a pile of paid advertisements posing as stories.
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Holy Shit? It's illegal to decrypt protected content, in order to display it? My TV is breaking the law!. And every HDMI compatible TV I've ever seen!
Holy shit, it's Wikipedia to the rescue! SWOOSH! Appearing in a flash of googling, it smashes, it bashes, and it makes a mean soup du AK Marc!
And the main use of HDCP? Wait for it guys... "Encryption of the data sent over DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, GVIF, or UDI interfaces prevents eavesdropping of information and man-in-the-middle attacks." ... And what's The XBox doing between your PS4 and your TV? Being.. maybe... in the middle?
Good day, sir. May you continue to be up-modded for being a complete moron, and may the moderator who up-modded you perhaps manage to grow a brain.
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