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Originally Posted by andy
One major difference with Bu-Ray is that is has much more strict copy protection than DVD. Forget about modifying your player to eliminate Macrovision. Even worse than that (for us) is that there is a plan to completely disable all analog video outputs (including composite, S-video, and component) by 2013. This will obviously make it completely impossible to use Blu-Ray with our vintage TVs, or even older HDTVs without breaking the law.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/06...ood-drives-us- |
I'm not sure what they'll gain by doing this. Unless they come up with another encryption other than HDCP for HDMI, which would really tick off all of the current owners of high end HDTVs if they couldn't play their Blu-rays.
With HDFury2 you can strip out the HDCP and also output it to VGA or composite video. This seems like it might be a solution for vintage TVs.
I don't own anything yet that uses HDMI so I might be confused, but assuming I'm not off base it seems like there's already a solution for something that won't happen until 2013.
Well maybe by then there'll also be TV Police who'll be authorized to make random home searches for HDCP strippers.
John