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HD-DVD not HD for me

2 years, 7 months ago

in asides

AACS says the new players won’t output a full-HD signal from their component-video connections, since those jacks are analog instead of digital and thus have no copy protection. The “down-rezzed” signals will be limited to a resolution of 960 x 540 pixels Ã¢â‚¬â€ roughly half the 1,920 x 1,080 pixels that you’ll get through the copy-protected digital connectors on the players. The potentially huge problem with this strategy is that the only HD inputs on a lot of older HDTVs are component video. Estimates vary, but it’s believed 3 to 6.6 million such displays are in U.S.

I guess it’s time to buy a new TV. ;D

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JaredB 2 years ago 1 point
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Or maybe it's time to not cave in to this crap by buying a whole new TV just so they can restrict you.

Don't forget the lessons learned from DIVX (not DivX) in the late 90's... if enough people "just say no" and don't support this kind of thing (by refusing to buy the hardware) it will eventually flop.

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Dan 2 years ago 1 point
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I don't remember the DIVX fiasco but I could only imagine what it was. The only problem is both HD formats support this crap. I'll just stick with HD streaming to my averlink player.

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