here's a way to capture the video on the monitor without breaking the DMCA...
LCD monitors have a large connector inside that carries (at least) 3x8 bit and timing information. these are the 3 colors in the clear. it's super easy to write an fpga to grab those bits and re-create the contents of the video, and no obfuscation scheme has been broken (the HDCP has been taken care of by the LCD monitor's controller card)
no it doesn't... the components from National Semiconductor that can do it are pretty cheap... you need to be somewhat proficient in electronics, but can come up easily with a working design for less than 500 USD... the 10000 USD stuff is priced that way because it says "professionnal" on the box, but inside, it's the same stuff
thanks for pointing this device... the datasheet will go in my library, to accompany the ones for the SDI stuff digikey will soon see my money sent their way...
thing is, nothing says the video that is output by said firewire port has to be non-encrypted, recently a friend found out that the device had "5C content protection" enabled on the firewire port at all times... hardly useable
why the fascination with the "all digital" stuff that hollywood doesn't want anyone to have ? do like the pros do... use analog between stupidly locked up systems...
5TB ? that's like 18 of those 400G Hitachi drives, that go for 411 USD a piece these days. if you include the bi-opteron box, and a couple of 3ware Sata cards, that's a total investment of 20 grand or so...
The first thing, is that the device is unable to keep a tcp connection open, and drops it (which is a pain in the rear end if you're remotely hacking something on a box behind said gateway)
The web interface to the firewall is braindead at best, doesn't even do SSL (so that anyone can look at the gateway's admin password, there supposedly is a telnet interface (riiiight, telnet...) and no SSH into the thing.
The firewall setup itself is so braindead that it doesn't handle the load (look for "problem [netgear|linksys|whatever]" on google) and hangs itself after a few hours. This is due to the ridiculously small (as in under-powered) processor and the lack of onboard ram.
Furthermore, there's no way to get the thing to run IPSEC, which is the only way to get a secure wireless gateway (WEP has been broken from the start, being RC4).
My soekris net 4801 based router, on the other hand, has been working for a couple months now (bought it in august), without the need for rebooting, runs IPsec, has a sensible firewall interface (iptables) that can be hacked to death, has already seen about 100G of traffic, without clinching at any time.
Granted, the soekris is not inexpensive (about 240 EUR) but has given me much more bang for my bucks than what the netgear ever gave me.
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inferior formats just won't stick.
was that joke intentionnal ?
Come to think of it, the Chinese probably make better movies too.
Agreed, those jacky chan movies are extremely cool
here's a way to capture the video on the monitor without breaking the DMCA...
LCD monitors have a large connector inside that carries (at least) 3x8 bit and timing information. these are the 3 colors in the clear. it's super easy to write an fpga to grab those bits and re-create the contents of the video, and no obfuscation scheme has been broken (the HDCP has been taken care of by the LCD monitor's controller card)
this is probably a dupe... 3 months old (at least) and counting...
this is part of the intercal specification
the appropriate ADC from National Semiconductor ADC12L066 are 20 USD a pop, not what I call super expensive...
man, whatever happened to the garage tinkerer spirit from 10 years ago ?
no it doesn't... the components from National Semiconductor that can do it are pretty cheap...
you need to be somewhat proficient in electronics, but can come up easily with a working design for less than 500 USD...
the 10000 USD stuff is priced that way because it says "professionnal" on the box, but inside, it's the same stuff
thanks for pointing this device... the datasheet will go in my library, to accompany the ones for the SDI stuff
digikey will soon see my money sent their way...
not if you design the receiver/decoder board out of chips available at digikey...
thing is, nothing says the video that is output by said firewire port has to be non-encrypted, recently a friend found out that the device had "5C content protection" enabled on the firewire port at all times... hardly useable
SCART is inherently a EU standard. Show me a US tv with a scart connector...
it may be illegal to SELL such a device. however... what prevents you from building one ?
why the fascination with the "all digital" stuff that hollywood doesn't want anyone to have ?
do like the pros do... use analog between stupidly locked up systems...
What am I missing here?
.fr would put it, the programs are designed to prepare your brain for the commercial breaks
the hollywood idiots don't want that to ever happen
See, as the boss of the most important TV channel in
if he's about to replace the controller, move to SATA and be done with those wide cables..
I recently calculated the price for a brand new box with tons of storage (3ware SATA controller) and dual opteron with tons of ram for under 5K EUR.
I'd get one right away if it featured ogg...
if it doesn't do ogg, it doesn't get my money. as simple as that
in the case of the AMDs, you need a NUMA aware OS, SMP is not enough
friend of mine uses it to heat the fishtank via a double heat exchanger (the fish don't like de-ionized water)
as the thing probably has some version of Linux inside, it's a shame it doesn't *also* do NFS shares...
wierd that they haven't been bought out by clearchannel yet...
5TB ? that's like 18 of those 400G Hitachi drives, that go for 411 USD a piece these days. if you include the bi-opteron box, and a couple of 3ware Sata cards, that's a total investment of 20 grand or so...
you have something better to offer ?
Wim Van de Putte's company, kd85 is what you're looking for. They are located in belgium
Thing is, that netgear thing (I have one) sucks.
The first thing, is that the device is unable to keep a tcp connection open, and drops it (which is a pain in the rear end if you're remotely hacking something on a box behind said gateway)
The web interface to the firewall is braindead at best, doesn't even do SSL (so that anyone can look at the gateway's admin password, there supposedly is a telnet interface (riiiight, telnet...) and no SSH into the thing.
The firewall setup itself is so braindead that it doesn't handle the load (look for "problem [netgear|linksys|whatever]" on google) and hangs itself after a few hours. This is due to the ridiculously small (as in under-powered) processor and the lack of onboard ram.
Furthermore, there's no way to get the thing to run IPSEC, which is the only way to get a secure wireless gateway (WEP has been broken from the start, being RC4).
My soekris net 4801 based router, on the other hand, has been working for a couple months now (bought it in august), without the need for rebooting, runs IPsec, has a sensible firewall interface (iptables) that can be hacked to death, has already seen about 100G of traffic, without clinching at any time.
Granted, the soekris is not inexpensive (about 240 EUR) but has given me much more bang for my bucks than what the netgear ever gave me.