Well I usually consider myself bleeding edge on some things, like HDTVs, I'm on my 2nd looking for my 3rd.
However, in this case I think it's less bleeding edge, than the companies including M$ and Intel introducing standards no one knowsare necessary. If we knew about this (I knew about HDCP but not that it was going to be necessary for Blu ray period (what about laptops with direct connections to LCDs most of throse are going to be through non HDCP connections too I'd think, despite the ease of facilitating such a connection.
I also think alot of people expected M$ to drop this the way they did previous intrusive methods M$ secur-check and unique Intel Processor ID (which is still there just no implemented much).
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[rant]But once again the jerks in big studios won out. Because they still want to charge you $50 for a copy of The Great Escape or Groundhog Day without any additional features, despite having recouped all the production costs, etc. long ago. If they made DVDs and CDs cheap like the technology was supposed to promise, people'd buy them. And they took so long to launch DVD-A and SACD or even PCgames on DVD, that by the time they got their act together to make 'normal profits' off of the advancements, the burner/media technology caught up to them. They spend so much time worrying about the copy protection, that they release the technology in quantity long after the average public can make piracy cheap enough. You show me a single effective anti-piracy measure, and I'll show you something that the crackers haven't even bothered with yet. The studios just don't understand that people want reasonable prices, not unreasonable restrictions so they can continue to fund payola and mansions and jets, etc. The artists don't see a fraction of that money it's used to prop up the industry itself. The artists would make ore money giving away their music and charging for concerts/shirts, etc. than any other model they could come up with, and for hollywood, they would make more money if they made it more affordable, sure some people will never buy DVDs, but most would rather a store bought one for $7.99-9.99 than renting and burning a copy. They don't seem to realise measures like this just tick people off and hurt their overall market.
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The other thing that disturbed me was the down scaling in resolution for high def content that doesn't support HDCP. I knew it would be downscaled but I believe it says by 75%? So does that mean a 1080 signal will be down to 270? I mean common, that's not even DVD quality!
Actually the 75% is the global reduction, so thing half-height and half-width, and not surprisingly enough that comes close (960x540) to matching the 640x480/720x540 type of resolution, and that makes sense. Without HDCP you will only get the current DVD style resoulution not the 1920x1080i/p or 1280x720p that would be offered by HD disks.
So indeed any 1080p content downconverted to SDTV/EDTV would be LESS than 20% the overall picture information of the original.
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