Posted by Joshua Zyber on 11/14/06 23:28

"tekki" <news@dvdlibrary.co.uk> wrote in message
news:5q-dnV2STf7YRMTYRVnygg@bt.com...
> What you are all missing is the fact that these players will only
> output
> protected content, i.e. bluray films via the hdmi, so only any use if
> you
> have a tv that supports the new hdmi v.13 socket.

Both HD DVD and Blu-ray players are capable from a hardware perspective
of allowing full High Definition video to be output over analog
Component Video. In the future, some discs may be encoded with an Image
Constraint Token (ICT) that will automatically reduce the video
resolution of the Component connections to either 480p or 540p output.
However, as yet no discs contain that flag, and word is that the movie
studios have an unofficial pact not to employ it until at least 2010.

You don't need HDMI 1.3 to play either format. The current HDMI
standards (1.1 and 1.2) work just fine too.

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