Stud4

sameoldthing

sameoldthing

Geeum

timerider42

what's wrong with just using coaxial or optical connections?

we're rolling out fibre across countries, but we still have to use shitty multi-mini-contact wires for HD content? wtf

it's like a make busy project within the audio video industry - retreading further and further - upgrading getting closer to computer hardware shelf life

skulldriveshaft

Akmed

whootowl

KyleJ3

FLskydiver

And really, not letting you output to an analogue source so you don't "dub" the video - really, give the pirates some credit.

tokiwartooth

person65535

oyumurtaci

I'm no business guru, but I remember even during the dawn of DivX and P2P, I didn't mind paying around the 10 dollar or below price range for a DVD that I liked with the extra features and content I would get (Eurotrip, for 7 bucks, was a steal for the great beer and pizza accompanied commentary). If I've already paid a boatload of money for my super grand HDTV, sound system and HD player of some sort and taken all the measures (even through redundant cabling and such) to ensure I get the show on the road, I definitely don't want a collection of 10 movies that I like to cost the same amount or more than the damn thing that plays them. Just like I don't like the idea of buying a Tesla Roadster and find out my electricity bill will skyrocket because I'll need a special high output high voltage plug from the power company installed in my garage and will pay 3 times more money because the plug has... 4 prongs. Maybe that was a bad analogy, but you get my point I hope...

oyumurtaci

HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak

Stopping piracy is simply not that profitable but screwing consumers who don't know any better and have no other means at their disposal is an excellent way to tag their pocket books.

Tehrab

Palestina

pb4ugoout

Playing DRM audio usually requires the player to disable the optical outputs.

Anyway I sworn the first day I touched a spectrum 48k clone that I won't touch or buy anything that decides instead of me how or if it's going to work :)

icebox1701

and if you are running enough bandwidth to some monitors or devices that won't allow you to daisy chain, a display port connector can fit 4 connectors on the back a any card fitting into the PCI spec.

bluebuilder

bluebuilder

strictnein

Now I would agree that a latching mechanism internal to the mechanical casing wouldn't be as sturdy as a couple of screws, but it still won't 'wiggle out' as one commenter complained, unless somebody is really yanking on the back.

bluebuilder

That's great and everything, but since nobody wants DRM and nobody wants advertising-driven, somebody has to come up with a business model that works. Because I'm pretty sure Star Wars would never have gotten made if the investors had asked, "Any chance we'll make money on this?" and the answer had been, "Nah, probably not. But content is a right, isn't it?"

Empire

treetrunk

ECAsh

oyumurtaci

Bauhaus

drewheyman

Isn't HDCP copy protection on displays useless after all?

Think of it.

They are, in all their twisted minds, thinking that I will reproduce say, a DVD, to my monitor in a DVI connection, and miraculously hook up the same connection to a miracle circuitry that will copy that signal into a new stream so I can pirate it.

Sounds a lot like thinking I'm going to dub VHS tapes using a patch video cable.

If I'm using digital data, I would pirate it with software to strip the DRM and copy into a hard drive directly. I would not copy from the video signal... even if it was digital.

HDCP is as stupid a trying to DRM the SPDIF (optical) output of a sound card so you cannot copy an MP3 file... You wouldn't, you would just copy the file, not the output.

HDCP on video is stupid to begin with... I guess DPCP follows suit.

aec007

I remember when DVI hit the market (in single link form) with a max resolution of 1600x1200, compared to VGA's 2048x1536. I hope displayport doesn't make everybody upgrade twice too...just come to market full-spec and make me happy.

EQC

WEGGLES90

And those thumbscrews are pretty much the best happy medium you'll get. You want to talk pain in the butt? Back in the early days of computing, those serial and parallel plugs came with Phillips-head screws. *shudder*

HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak

lepard

Jolyrogr

PlanetMojo

The people most interested in this are the large content creators, like the
MPAA, and distributors, like the
NATO who are afraid that if all theaters become digital, theft of content will increase.

From what I understand, the majority of theft is still with in the "Industrie's" own hands. It happens not from people bootlegging at home, but from the media providers them selves. $100k reels of film disappear not because a staff member has access to it. A DVD is duplicated from a master (or copy) at the source, and footage is copied from render houses. Distribution of the thieved copies is a different matter.

DeadWriter

I hope everybody who uses DRM goes out of business, and ceases to be able to distribute their DRM keys, and their works get forever lost to the sands of time. Nothing will be "classic" in the future, because you won't be able to watch old stuff. And it's all the shortsighted creators' fault!

HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak

SecretAZNMan

Geeum

pb4ugoout

pb4ugoout

Jolyrogr

Bash_

Mandatory_Field

The screws besides that DVI connector are there for a reason you bloody pinhead.

ReductiMat

EMoShunz

P3nnst8r