Goodbye, HD Component Video 469
glogger writes "Jim Willcox, the video expert at Consumer Reports, bids farewell to our ability to get high-definition video via the analog component-video connections on Blu-ray players. Thanks to Hollywood pirate-paranoia, potentially millions of law-abiding viewers will have their choices restricted. Quoting: 'Hollywood studios now have the right to insert an ICT "flag" into a Blu-ray movie; if it detects that a player is using an analog connection that doesn't support HDCP, it downconverts the video's 1080p (1920 by 1080) native resolution to 960 by 540 (540p): better than DVD quality but only about one-quarter of full HD quality. This ensures that high-def video is available only through the copy-protected HDMI outputs.'"
Re:Confused (Score:2, Funny)
Doesn't matter. Once consumers get hit by this they will freak out and the studios will find out how much of a bad idea this is.
Blurry (Score:2, Funny)
Was I the only one who read the blueray tag as 'blurry'?
Did anyone else read it as: (Score:5, Funny)
"This ensure that high-def video is available only through the copy-protected HDMI outputs or from Bittorrent"?
Damn dyslexia...
Re:Confused (Score:5, Funny)