You might want to check your manufacturer's manual for your TV.
I am willing to bet that since it is a Plasma (AKA: it's fairly new) it supports HDCP.
HDCP is a form of copy protection. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdcp for way more information than I can provide.
HDCP works over DVI or HDMI. HDMI is basically DVI with an audio transport and a smaller connector. You can get HDMI to DVI adapters and cables. I am guessing that you have either confused or associated HDMI and HDCP as one in the same.
Some people have a lot of their personal self worth tied up in their product and manufacturer selections as a consumer. Anything that threatens their integrity by exposing problems or issues with a product they have chosen to identify with causes an irrational reaction and a need to defend that product and all things related to it and by proxy of their choice in that product, themselves.
If you think about it a minute it is the capitalistic equivalent of religious zealotry. These are the same people who would be thumping bibles at you and creating moral laws against offensive things or going door to door trying to convert you to their way of thinking about moral and theistic values had they been exposed to that type of environment early enough. These are people who, had they been born in other countries with much more restrictive religious factions and governing bodies, end up joining with extremist groups and killing themselves and others to prove that their viewpoint is the correct one.
Extremism in any form is disturbing, highly limiting and should be avoided at all costs. Nature has some fine examples of extremist fauna that die rapidly outside of a very narrow set of parameters. You could say they are zealots of the parameters of their environment. Humans could learn a great deal from simple observation of over specialization.
Failure to allow for and listen to viewpoints and factual observations outside of your own opinion in any matter causes no end of grief and suffering that is unnecessary and harmful to all parties involved. Note that I said allow for and listen too, that doesn't mean that you have to agree, just be aware that there are other possible angles to everything in life. Everyone perceives the world in different ways.
Note: this is my opinion. You are welcome to disagree with it if you wish, just don't act like it doesn't even exist.
but I didn't agree to this new contract when I orignally purchased my 2 domain names 1.5 years ago. Am I still legally bound by it? Isn't Network Solutions required to notify me of changes in my contract with them? I haven't recieved any e-mails to my listed contacts nor have I recieved an snail mail pertaining to this. IANAL but this seems to be rather illegal if you ask me. I paid them to host the root DNS for the domains I registered. I did not pay them so that I could "rent" for my domain names. Bloody Indian Givers!
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You might want to check your manufacturer's manual for your TV.
I am willing to bet that since it is a Plasma (AKA: it's fairly new) it supports HDCP.
HDCP is a form of copy protection. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdcp for way more information than I can provide.
HDCP works over DVI or HDMI. HDMI is basically DVI with an audio transport and a smaller connector. You can get HDMI to DVI adapters and cables. I am guessing that you have either confused or associated HDMI and HDCP as one in the same.
Some people have a lot of their personal self worth tied up in their product and manufacturer selections as a consumer. Anything that threatens their integrity by exposing problems or issues with a product they have chosen to identify with causes an irrational reaction and a need to defend that product and all things related to it and by proxy of their choice in that product, themselves.
If you think about it a minute it is the capitalistic equivalent of religious zealotry. These are the same people who would be thumping bibles at you and creating moral laws against offensive things or going door to door trying to convert you to their way of thinking about moral and theistic values had they been exposed to that type of environment early enough. These are people who, had they been born in other countries with much more restrictive religious factions and governing bodies, end up joining with extremist groups and killing themselves and others to prove that their viewpoint is the correct one.
Extremism in any form is disturbing, highly limiting and should be avoided at all costs. Nature has some fine examples of extremist fauna that die rapidly outside of a very narrow set of parameters. You could say they are zealots of the parameters of their environment. Humans could learn a great deal from simple observation of over specialization.
Failure to allow for and listen to viewpoints and factual observations outside of your own opinion in any matter causes no end of grief and suffering that is unnecessary and harmful to all parties involved. Note that I said allow for and listen too, that doesn't mean that you have to agree, just be aware that there are other possible angles to everything in life. Everyone perceives the world in different ways.
Note: this is my opinion. You are welcome to disagree with it if you wish, just don't act like it doesn't even exist.
but I didn't agree to this new contract when I orignally purchased my 2 domain names 1.5 years ago. Am I still legally bound by it? Isn't Network Solutions required to notify me of changes in my contract with them? I haven't recieved any e-mails to my listed contacts nor have I recieved an snail mail pertaining to this. IANAL but this seems to be rather illegal if you ask me. I paid them to host the root DNS for the domains I registered. I did not pay them so that I could "rent" for my domain names. Bloody Indian Givers!