Just a thought, but the President-Elect (Bush) is for personal privacy etc. which would also imply that he would take care before signing this bill imposing penalty's on encryption users.
And no I havn't read the bill so I hereby declare myself open for flamebait on anything I stated incorrectly.
-john
don't get me wrong on this, standards are great, and i'm not going to complain about standards themselves. however, a thought occured to me while i was reading the previous posts on this... there have been so many standards evolving in a relatively short time, yet noone has created a system which adequately handles them.
we have seen many standards, and various formats of audio and video vying to be the next 'standard', come and go in a relatively short time, and it seems that with this someone would have thought, by now, *hey* i'll make a device that can be upgraded, like many new motherboards, videocards, etc. via a flash rom update.
with this i don't see why it would be so difficult to make this device read the data, in binary format from the cd/dvd, then process that binary data according to whatever standards it has available, to determine how to extract the meaningful data from the file system.
this data would then be sent to a subsystem that decoded the data with an appropriate codec from the available codec library (which again could be updated easily via some connection to your pc), and finally send the decoded signal to your tv, amp, etc.
hopefully that idea makes sense... i'm pretty damn tired at the moment;)
looking back at what i've said, and idea comes to mind why we don't ever see a device like this. any company would be crazy to produce a upgradeable device. why? because at the moment the market structure depends on them being able to sell there newest and best devices, that new standards can bring along with them new products and new sales.
heh... so a device that does everything wouldn't be economical... right? guess we'll have to wait for someone to make one for themselves then think... hey... lets sell these
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Just a thought, but the President-Elect (Bush) is for personal privacy etc. which would also imply that he would take care before signing this bill imposing penalty's on encryption users. And no I havn't read the bill so I hereby declare myself open for flamebait on anything I stated incorrectly. -john
don't get me wrong on this, standards are great, and i'm not going to complain about standards themselves. however, a thought occured to me while i was reading the previous posts on this ... there have been so many standards evolving in a relatively short time, yet noone has created a system which adequately handles them.
... i'm pretty damn tired at the moment ;)
... so a device that does everything wouldn't be economical ... right? guess we'll have to wait for someone to make one for themselves then think ... hey ... lets sell these
we have seen many standards, and various formats of audio and video vying to be the next 'standard', come and go in a relatively short time, and it seems that with this someone would have thought, by now, *hey* i'll make a device that can be upgraded, like many new motherboards, videocards, etc. via a flash rom update.
with this i don't see why it would be so difficult to make this device read the data, in binary format from the cd/dvd, then process that binary data according to whatever standards it has available, to determine how to extract the meaningful data from the file system.
this data would then be sent to a subsystem that decoded the data with an appropriate codec from the available codec library (which again could be updated easily via some connection to your pc), and finally send the decoded signal to your tv, amp, etc.
hopefully that idea makes sense
looking back at what i've said, and idea comes to mind why we don't ever see a device like this. any company would be crazy to produce a upgradeable device. why? because at the moment the market structure depends on them being able to sell there newest and best devices, that new standards can bring along with them new products and new sales.
heh
well i'm out
-john