Hi guys
PAL PROGRESSIVE OFFICIALLY RATIFIED
Source:
http://www.warren-news.com/currentnewscedaily.htm
"Videophiles in U.K. and Europe soon will be able to use their high-end TVs and monitors to view progressively scanned images with component-video output from DVD players, now that Macrovision copy protection on such output is available for PAL video standard used there. Progressive-scan component video was announced for NTSC countries by Toshiba in 1998, and players arrived in U.S. year later after copy protection issues were settled..."
German source:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/nij-13.09.02-000/ [Babelfish translation follows]
"After a Hickhack of several years around the integration of the copy protection macro vision into the PAL progressive standard now the first official PAL DVD Player with expenditure for frame might appear obvious.
Already in the year 1998 Toshiba DVD Player announced, which should supply videos not in half but frames (over a similar component exit) at appropriate televisions and projectors; actually the first appropriate devices appeared a little later -- however mind you on the US-American and the Japanese market with expenditure for progressive only in the television standard used there the responsible DVD CoPy control Association ( DVD CCA) bricked NTSC. with the European standard PAL. The reason for this lay in the fact that the progressive variant of the copy protection macro vision had been officially adopted only for NTSC, not however for PAL. Technically possible however already was it -- just as de-energising some DVD Player, which are to actually control only NT-sports club-progressive, after a small interference in addition, PAL DVDs in frames present.
Still in July the European agency of the company Macrovision explained opposite heise on-line that the appropriate copy protection procedure of the responsible DVD CoPy control Association (DVD CCA) would be present already for a long time for examination, a final decision however probably only 2003 is met. To a report of the Consumer Electronics DAILY one from the house Warren Communication News it went now however nevertheless faster: Thus macro vision is to have sent to all DVD Player manufacturers a circular now, into the enterprise explained that one explains oneself in agreement with the sales of PAL progressive devices, if these send macro vision car Gain control spurious signal over the component exit. DVD manufacturer Arcam quit thereupon today the PAL progressive model DVD88Plus for the British market on, some further devices might follow.
It is amazing that the developer of the copy protection seems to have the final say in this affair after this representation and for this does not lead the DVD CCA. the Consumer electronics DAILY one -- which received like heise on-line so far still no confirmation official according to own data from macro vision -- out that the DVD CCA had explained already unofficially its agreement if itself DVD Player manufacturer, copy protection developer and Hollywood unite.
Owners of the Denon DVD Player Dvd-2800mkii might wait now strained for a PAL progressive Patch, which is to be brought in simply over CD Rome. A firm speaker had nevertheless explained heise on-line in July opposite that Denon wanted to actually offer this software after the official PAL progressive start. The Denon representative doubted however that the DVD CCA will have already struggled through itself up to the autumn to the decision necessary for it."
Kind regards
Andrew
