Posted by phil-news-nospam on 12/17/05 21:46

In rec.video.dvd.tech Goro <evilninjax@yahoo.com> wrote:
|
| Alpha wrote:
|> Unlikely. Blu-Ray formats re copy protection have not been fully finalized
|> yet, one article suggesting June for that. HD DVD may be out sometime in
|> April.
|
| True. However, BR homerecorder would have different issues than BR
| Studio release.
|
| In fact, it might be that BR homerecorder would have NO copy protection
| AACS or otherwise, EXCEPT to be aware of a digital input stream that
| has a NO copy flag (eg BR Studio disc). I would guess, however, that
| it would have to get the blessing of MPAA to be able to record HDMI as
| that carries the HDCP on it for ostensibly this precise reason. Could
| be that BR Recorders will only take component in?

No reason not to record HDMI if the HDCP is absent. That's what would be
the case if non-protected video is coming over, such as from home-made
videos, local TV station productions, etc. But when the HDCP is present,
the recorder would be expected to comply with whatever setting is in the
HDCP data, if the recorders knows HDCP (won't get usable video if not as
I understand it).

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