>A DVI connection can still require HDCP. Just because your nice Comcast<br>>DCT6200 as a DVI port on it, does NOT mean that you can hook it up to<br>>your Dell monitor which doesn't support HDCP[1]. The PS3 also requires
<br>>HDCP over the HDMI connection. Such a device will not work with these<br>>connections which are becoming the majority of connections.<br><br>Actually, HDMI/DVI conenctions still represent less than 2% of the connections in consumer level AV devices.
<br><br>>According to the DVD-CCA, any upscaling DVD player cannot output the<br>>signal over unencrypted digital channels. BluRay and HD-DVD are not<br>>supposed to output digital signals over channels that don't have HDCP.
<br>>You can still get the analog output, but not digital. So, if you wanted<br>>a capture device, you'd want to look at the YPbPr connections, and not<br>>the HDMI connections.<br><br>>To say that HDMI and DVI don't carry encryption or that the encryption
<br>>is going anyway is just wrong.<br><br>>--Patrick<br><br>If you go back and read the thread carfeully, you'll see that the focus of this device is to exactly that. I believe we should include the DVI/HDMI inputs as well as a way to "hedge our bets" so to speak. I also very firmly believe that the entire HDCP scheme will fail. NOT because of techology circumvention though. If you look back at the past few years you can see a very clear trend by the consumer AWAY from any DRM type technology. In arguments such as this, people tend to miss the point. IT DOESN'T MATTER what the DVD-CCA, RIAA, MPAA or <insert oppression acronym here> wants, or does. What matters is what the consumer wants and does. The verdict is in on that subject and it's past debate, the debate is over. Consumers HATE DRM in all it's forms, on all media. The history of the past 100 years is littered with the rotting corpses of technology that industries tried to foist on the consumer that failed, no matter how hard they tried to tell us it was good for us. It's also filled with technologies theat we love and use every day that they tried to tell us were bad and force us to stop using. The only reason we aren't seeing much debate on this yet is that the digital media home hasn't arrived for the majority of households. Only 5-10% of households that have cable or satellite use any sort of PVR solution. We are still a tiny fraction, as were digital/mp3 audio users 10 years ago. In the next 5 years the technology will become cheap, easy to use and ubuquitous. It will then spread like wildfire and the very pressures that broke the back of the RIAA will break any attempt to violate the rights of the consumers to use their media any way they want. When Soccer Mom can't copy her newly downloaded Disney film from the home media center to the media player in the mini van in order to entertain the troops on a long car trip - senators will hear about it.
<br><br>"But the law says they can't use it any way they want!" you say? Yes, but laws change or are ignored when the consumers make it clear they won't tolerate it. Encryption of media is going away. End of story. If you listen closely you can hear the dying whimpers of the RIAA right now..... shhhhhh.........listen.
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