HD to Require New Computer Monitors

[akrako1]

HighDef Content to Require New Monitors

Posted on SlashDot by QT
QT writes "Ars Technica has an interesting article on how HDCP figures into Microsoft and Apple's future OS plans. Not only will future HD content not play in pure HD on most existing monitors (it will be degraded, or not shown at all), but high-end monitors today don't support HDCP yet. HDCP has been coming for 3+ years, but geek fantasy items such as Apple's $3,000 30" Cinema Display don't even have support for it yet! The end result is that when Windows Vista ships (and Apple's next OS), most people won't be able to watch protected HD content on their computers."

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/hdcp-vista.ars


- Geez! I can see two things happening with this... 1) hd-dvd (or blu-ray) flops. Who is gonna spend a whole bunch of money to buy a new HD tv and computer monitor that satisfy the HDCP requirements? Couple this with the format war. If it's going to be this bing a pain, I think most people will be happy to stay with their non-HD content for awhile.... and 2) every computer hacker in the world is going to be working on cracking the encryption for their computer. remember how css got cracked? some kid wanted to play dvd's on his linux machine...

[TwistedLincoln]

I would rather be crushed under a ten story pile of 21" monitors than buy a new monitor just to play HD-DVD's on my PC. Not to mention buying a new HDTV...

Someday content providers will figure out that complicated anti-piracy methods aren't going to save them the revenue from lost sales-- it will only COST them sales. Legitimate customers are not going to jump through 30,000 hoops just to use a product that they paid for...

[BJ_M]

posted July 23rd already here

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=274204&highlight=