Well i you think that is bad, try projectors for the last say 10 years i try not to think about it since i start to cry like a baby if i do. But take your 2 years interval a $8000 projector 2 years ago would probably be about $2000 today max and many people will claim their $1200 one has the upperhand. Deinterlacers/scalers also loose value but most of these companies allow you to upgrade to new models. But you are right its a silly hobby that we try to coverup by saying we don't have to spend $40 bucks everytime to go to the local cinema *grin*
Daniel.
There are several devices that can bring that back to either dvi/hdmi and external scalers who all are coming out or are already out with HDSDI inputs to replace their SDI (SD only) inputs. This is one (not cheap) http://www.crystalio.com/ but there are more. I personally use a vp50 (www.dvdo.com) that is beta testing its hdsdi input to replace their sdi card i currently use for my dvd player. Let me stress most of us do it to get better video so the cost are high and not to pirate anytbing (i am against drm for other reasons). I just wanted to make clear there are ways around hdcp and have been for a while handy engineers could probably sidestep (like this aacs hack is doing) the real protection by tapping into the datapaths say of a cheap projector creating a secure path will always leak somewhere just like the whole secure trusted computing will not work unless they have full control and they never will. In many ways encryption is a better way atleast that has a change to flow over the internet and into/out devices unhacked but that is also tricky as we are seeing now. Eben Moglen is right the only way for their biz. model to work is to have military like control over all our devices and networks and we won't let them and will resist.
Daniel.
HDCP has also been hacked (or atleast there are ways to remove the hdcp from a signal). 2 ways are already available one is stripping the signal using small boxes that don't follow the rules and the last is by picking up the signal inside a player before hdcp is added and putting a HDSDI connection on your player and a scaler that handles hdsdi (this is the way i will do it since i want the best signal possible and hdsdi is the best).
shop where you can buy a hdcp free player.
http://www.jvb.nl/jvb.asp?cur=1&level=dvdplayers&p age=browse&searchtype=quicksearch&searchstring=hd- sdi
Daniel.
There are 3 (video) talks at http://www.rehash.nl/hollandopen/
from Eben Moglen (rms lawyer) on these topics (license_drm.mp4 too). I submitted
these a few days ago but they got rejected.
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Well i you think that is bad, try projectors for the last say 10 years i try not to think about it since i start to cry like a baby if i do. But take your 2 years interval a $8000 projector 2 years ago would probably be about $2000 today max and many people will claim their $1200 one has the upperhand. Deinterlacers/scalers also loose value but most of these companies allow you to upgrade to new models. But you are right its a silly hobby that we try to coverup by saying we don't have to spend $40 bucks everytime to go to the local cinema *grin* Daniel.
There are several devices that can bring that back to either dvi/hdmi and external scalers who all are coming out or are already out with HDSDI inputs to replace their SDI (SD only) inputs. This is one (not cheap) http://www.crystalio.com/ but there are more. I personally use a vp50 (www.dvdo.com) that is beta testing its hdsdi input to replace their sdi card i currently use for my dvd player. Let me stress most of us do it to get better video so the cost are high and not to pirate anytbing (i am against drm for other reasons). I just wanted to make clear there are ways around hdcp and have been for a while handy engineers could probably sidestep (like this aacs hack is doing) the real protection by tapping into the datapaths say of a cheap projector creating a secure path will always leak somewhere just like the whole secure trusted computing will not work unless they have full control and they never will. In many ways encryption is a better way atleast that has a change to flow over the internet and into/out devices unhacked but that is also tricky as we are seeing now. Eben Moglen is right the only way for their biz. model to work is to have military like control over all our devices and networks and we won't let them and will resist. Daniel.
HDCP has also been hacked (or atleast there are ways to remove the hdcp from a signal). 2 ways are already available one is stripping the signal using small boxes that don't follow the rules and the last is by picking up the signal inside a player before hdcp is added and putting a HDSDI connection on your player and a scaler that handles hdsdi (this is the way i will do it since i want the best signal possible and hdsdi is the best). shop where you can buy a hdcp free player. http://www.jvb.nl/jvb.asp?cur=1&level=dvdplayers&p age=browse&searchtype=quicksearch&searchstring=hd- sdi
Daniel.
There are 3 (video) talks at http://www.rehash.nl/hollandopen/ from Eben Moglen (rms lawyer) on these topics (license_drm.mp4 too). I submitted these a few days ago but they got rejected.