<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>What will be exciting is when the crackers start intercepting and<br>cracking the keys on a regular bases, then the HDCP people will start
<br>revoking large numbers of keys effectively breaking the HDTVs of many<br>legitimate consumers. The lesson here is NEVER buy a HDMI screen that<br>won't accept a standard, non HDCP, DVI signal.</blockquote><div><br>
<br>Oh please. <br><br>a) the scenario you are describing will never happen, because nobody will ever bother intercepting HDCP protected signals to circumvent copy protection for the same reasons that nobody circumvents copy protection today by recording unprotected DVI signals. It's a ridiculous amount of data, and it is easier to break the copy protection on the compressed content than it is to capture the decompressed data. If it does become prohibitively expensive to break copy protection before decompression, the HD analog hole is gaping wide open. Analog HD capture cards don't cost much more today than a PVR-350 did 5 years ago, we're just waiting for someone to decide they want it enough to write the linux drivers.
<br><br>b) You will NEVER be able to buy an HDMI screen that won't accept a standard, non HDCP, DVI signal, because (expletives deleted, read: "it would be broken").<br><br>-chris<br></div><br></div><br><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>TV/IT Engineer<br>WCJB-TV Gainesville, FL<br>(352) 377 2020 x248<br><a href="mailto:cribe@wcjb.com">cribe@wcjb.com</a>