[mythtv-users] Is Wider better?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Apr 30 16:49:34 UTC 2007


Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/30/2007 11:18 AM, Brian Wood wrote:
>> Peter A. Daly wrote:
>>   
>>> In the next few months I'll be in the market for a new LCD screen for a
>>> small/medium sized room.  It will be replacing a 19" CRT TV.
>>>
>>> I think I've decided to go the LCD computer monitor route rather than
>>> the LCD TV route.  We watch exclusively (right now) SD recorded from TV
>>> content.
>> One thing that most LCD TVs have that most computer-type monitors do not
>> is HDCP.
>>
>> This might or might not be a factor for you, just something to be aware of.
> 
> Another thing LCD TV's have (that you likely don't want) is overscan.  
> With a monitor, you can get 1:1 pixel mapping, no overscan, and full 
> resolution.  With a TV that has overscan, you can get any two of the three.
> 
> So, 6 on one hand, half dozen on the other...
> 
> Besides, now that Windows Vista is out and since it will downscale to 
> 480p then upscale to monitor resolution*** high-definition content 
> played on a system without "end-to-end" DRM, nearly all new monitors 
> have DVI with HDCP support or HDMI support.  The HDCP (which is required 
> in HDMI) allows Vista to ensure you're playing back the content on a 
> monitor and not on a cable connected to another box (i.e. a Linux box) 
> that's grabbing the DVI data for circumventing copyright protection 
> mechanisms.
> 
> I wish more people knew that HDCP and HDMI are actually bad things--not 
> good things--but it's hard to argue that fact when people are unable to 
> do things they want to do with technology because broken OS's/Media 
> Players/Video Drivers/Hardware refuse to do their jobs if a device with 
> which they are communicating doesn't support enD-user Rights reMoval (DRM).

I agree with your points.

If anybody is interested in further information on How Vista and
Hollywood trample on your "rights", see:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html


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