How does racist progaganda relate to USB storage devices? Besides, let's be realistic, no one requires a company to make its products Kosher. So, keep your anti-semitic comments south of the Mason-Dixon line or back in ancient history where they belong.
There are several dangers associated with this concept A) The devices themselves could be easily disabled, and not in an obvious fashion B) These devices could limit speed in vehicles trying to escape from situations with non speed-limited vehicles (such as carjacking, pursuits, etc) C) GPS Equipment is not without imperfections, what about the possibility of a wildly varying location when on a high speed road causing your vehicle's engine to cut out, leading to rear impacts. I wouldn't trust my Magellan GPS to be perfectly accurate, though the EPEs are better without Selective Availability, there are instances when it is still wildly incorrect. D) This is the first enabling step for governments to install 2 way communications, in order to keep tabs on the locations of citizens. I would postulate that in the near future, the British Bureaucrats will say that their passive system is inadequate and that it needs central monitoring.
Keep in mind, though this is probably caused by well intentioned hyper-liberals trying to protect the masses, these types of measures are simply another example of why starting a business in Europe is so expensive...excessive regulation
--Do you fear the sign that reads "Please Check Nasal Septums at the Door?"
I would tend to disagree.
The sony equipment you can buy at Best Buy, Circuit City and their ilk, if the standard "commodity grade" equipment that is made to be sold to the average consumer that knows nothing other than that one is pretty.
However, if you head out to a decent store, or an online retailer, you can find the sony ES equipment which is quite impressive. Stay away from anything that comes in a pre-fab package as they are usually older model equipment packaged with substandard speakers... Not to mention the mysterious question of why they include a center channel with a pro-logic reciever, which seems to be the trend with the packaged sets.
Using the coax cabling vs the optical cabling, i prefer the coax for several reasons:
1: Cheaper
2: Physically more robust (Optical fibre cables (glass or plastic) will eventually break if flexed enough (same could be said about coax as well, depending on the center conductor being stranded or solid)
3: Less subject to accidental unplugging
4: Can be extended using standard issue radio-shack couplers
However, optical cabling does have a few virtues:
1: It's smaller, which can be a real benefit when you have as large of a spaghetti factory as I do
2: Little degradation of the connectors
Their goal: prevent the masses from duplicating their proprietary (everything is proprietary when first released) video streams by encrypting the uncompressed data.
JoeSchmoeTheVideoPirate's goal: duplicate the video. Simple as that.
That goal is easily attainable even with internal decryption hardware. At some point in the process, the video will become decrypted, and most likely will become analog at some point to be displayed a/an CRT(s) in the HDTV unit.
The conclusion, with the help of a screwdriver or two, a soldering iron, an oscilloscope and a logic probe, it would be very possible to find that decrypted stream within the HDTV reciever.
Once you have the stream you can do anything you want with it.
JVC is in no position to prevent piracy. Hardware based encryption schemes will be broken, no question about it. The industry positioning and system of royalties and expensive distribution will have to change and cause the "benefits" of piracy to the consumer base to be eliminated.
Slashdot Mirror
How does racist progaganda relate to USB storage devices? Besides, let's be realistic, no one requires a company to make its products Kosher. So, keep your anti-semitic comments south of the Mason-Dixon line or back in ancient history where they belong.
There are several dangers associated with this concept
A) The devices themselves could be easily disabled, and not in an obvious fashion
B) These devices could limit speed in vehicles trying to escape from situations with non speed-limited vehicles (such as carjacking, pursuits, etc)
C) GPS Equipment is not without imperfections, what about the possibility of a wildly varying location when on a high speed road causing your vehicle's engine to cut out, leading to rear impacts. I wouldn't trust my Magellan GPS to be perfectly accurate, though the EPEs are better without Selective Availability, there are instances when it is still wildly incorrect.
D) This is the first enabling step for governments to install 2 way communications, in order to keep tabs on the locations of citizens. I would postulate that in the near future, the British Bureaucrats will say that their passive system is inadequate and that it needs central monitoring.
Keep in mind, though this is probably caused by well intentioned hyper-liberals trying to protect the masses, these types of measures are simply another example of why starting a business in Europe is so expensive...excessive regulation
--Do you fear the sign that reads "Please Check Nasal Septums at the Door?"
I would tend to disagree. .
The sony equipment you can buy at Best Buy, Circuit City and their ilk, if the standard "commodity grade" equipment that is made to be sold to the average consumer that knows nothing other than that one is pretty
However, if you head out to a decent store, or an online retailer, you can find the sony ES equipment which is quite impressive.
Stay away from anything that comes in a pre-fab package as they are usually older model equipment packaged with substandard speakers...
Not to mention the mysterious question of why they include a center channel with a pro-logic reciever, which seems to be the trend with the packaged sets.
Using the coax cabling vs the optical cabling, i prefer the coax for several reasons:
1: Cheaper
2: Physically more robust (Optical fibre cables (glass or plastic) will eventually break if flexed enough (same could be said about coax as well, depending on the center conductor being stranded or solid)
3: Less subject to accidental unplugging
4: Can be extended using standard issue radio-shack couplers
However, optical cabling does have a few virtues:
1: It's smaller, which can be a real benefit when you have as large of a spaghetti factory as I do
2: Little degradation of the connectors
Their goal: prevent the masses from duplicating their proprietary (everything is proprietary when first released) video streams by encrypting the uncompressed data. JoeSchmoeTheVideoPirate's goal: duplicate the video. Simple as that. That goal is easily attainable even with internal decryption hardware. At some point in the process, the video will become decrypted, and most likely will become analog at some point to be displayed a/an CRT(s) in the HDTV unit. The conclusion, with the help of a screwdriver or two, a soldering iron, an oscilloscope and a logic probe, it would be very possible to find that decrypted stream within the HDTV reciever. Once you have the stream you can do anything you want with it. JVC is in no position to prevent piracy. Hardware based encryption schemes will be broken, no question about it. The industry positioning and system of royalties and expensive distribution will have to change and cause the "benefits" of piracy to the consumer base to be eliminated.