Um, the cynics amongst us suggest that's down to the DRM paranoia of the RIAA and other 'content' owners than the industry's decision from a technical PoV.Originally posted by Messiah
DVD recorders etc are all sporting HDMI connectors
What's the issue here? Why would having an HDMI connector stop them upconverting analog inputs? The poing AIUI is to stop HD material entering the digital worl unprotected and the analog world at all .. SD upsampling to HD surely is no different from what happens now with DVI+HDCP devices?Originally posted by gandley
problem i see being on amps is they will not offer upconversion to hdmi from say s-video or RGB, or component due to the HDCP protection.
Who cares about the DRM and the RIAA we all know that someone somewhere will get around it and allow us to rip out the digital information and tell the encryption to p*** off, just like Macrovision, Regional encoding and RCE have all been defeated so will HDCP, any protection system designed for a mass produced protect WILL fail, ITV digital cards, Sky cards etc etcOriginally posted by KraGorn
Um, the cynics amongst us suggest that's down to the DRM paranoia of the RIAA and other 'content' owners than the industry's decision from a technical PoV.![]()
I wish that manufacturers would produce products for the benifit of their customers rather than treating us all as criminals. If they actually sold their product at a reasonable price instead of repeatedly ripping us off the need for protection systems would dissapear since a large proportion on the popluation would buy it rather than try and get around it.Originally posted by KraGorn
I suspect HDMI will remain for all intenst and purpose unbroken. Hell, I don't even care that it remains so, what p***es me off is the increased cost of all these protection schemes being added to hardware which serves no useful purpose at all to the end-user.![]()