Posted by Doug Jacobs on 01/17/45 11:51

In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 123 <123@-.com> wrote:

> Here is more info on the hdmi disaster story.

> http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/13472

> HD-DVD won?t output full quality to current HDTV devices
> http://www.lostcoders.net/news/hd-dvd-wont-output-full-quality-to-current-hdtv-devices/

> From the above url.

> The movie industry and others will go to great lengths to combat
> piracy, even if that means hurting early adopters of HDTV technology
> by crippling functionality. AACS, the DRM-esque technology for HD-DVD
> players, will not produce a full quality signal from component video
> connectors, as analog is ?unsafe?. The resulting resolution is 960?540
> - more than a standard TV, but vastly inferior to the actual 1920?1080
> resolution that HD will support natively. That?s not the end of it
> either.

Which is why I'm going to wait as long as possible before buying a HD set.

I came close once, but decided to wait a while longer - then I find out
about this whole HDMI 1.3 silliness that won't even start shipping on sets
until later this year. Not to mention the fact that no one seems to be
able to give a straight answer about how the whole DRM/ICT flag thing is
supposed to work.

None of this is going to help convince folks to upgrade to HD or HD
movies... I wish the industry would realize they've gone beyond cutting
off their nose to spite their face here. At this rate, they won't have
any face left to spite!

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