2010: The Year AACS and HDMI Kill Off Component Video

[admin]

Digital HD (high definition), like that enabled through HDMI and Blu-ray, is awesome. It offers amazing picture and audio quality. It allows you to conveniently connect one single cable to provide both picture and sound. It is royally going to screw up a lot of homes next year. Wait, what was that last part? After December 31, 2010, manufacturers will not be "allowed" introduce new hardware with component video outputs supplying more than an SD resolution (480i or 576i). Should this go through as planned, it's going to disable or throw a wrench in a lot of existing custom installations as soon as the end of this year.


Discuss "2010: The Year AACS and HDMI Kill Off Component Video" here. Read the article.

[highfigh]

Digital HD (high definition), like that enabled through HDMI and Blu-ray, is awesome. It offers amazing picture and audio quality. It allows you to conveniently connect one single cable to provide both picture and sound. It is royally going to screw up a lot of homes next year. Wait, what was that last part? After December 31, 2010, manufacturers will not be "allowed" introduce new hardware with component video outputs supplying more than an SD resolution (480i or 576i). Should this go through as planned, it's going to disable or throw a wrench in a lot of existing custom installations as soon as the end of this year.


Discuss "2010: The Year AACS and HDMI Kill Off Component Video" here. Read the article.

This is what happens when Hollyweird has too many friends in Washington.

[garmon]

Ripping the video directly from the the disc is trivial. Much simpler than setting up an analog capture solution. The only people this would affect are those that think they need to play by the arbitrary rules setup to deny them their fair use rights.

[Stereodude]

And, analog goes bye bye completely in 2013 according to the stuff I've seen.

[TLS Guy]

Digital HD (high definition), like that enabled through HDMI and Blu-ray, is awesome. It offers amazing picture and audio quality. It allows you to conveniently connect one single cable to provide both picture and sound. It is royally going to screw up a lot of homes next year. Wait, what was that last part? After December 31, 2010, manufacturers will not be "allowed" introduce new hardware with component video outputs supplying more than an SD resolution (480i or 576i). Should this go through as planned, it's going to disable or throw a wrench in a lot of existing custom installations as soon as the end of this year.


Discuss "2010: The Year AACS and HDMI Kill Off Component Video" here. Read the article.

We have known this was coming for years. All cables should have been, and always should be run in large diameter conduit, so that it is easy to pull cables.

I still think the Hollywood crowd are a bunch of parasites we could do without though.

[gholt]

That's why I ran 2 1/2" smurf pipe to future proof as technology changes. Those who did not, will be left with big bills for custom installers.

[autoboy]

My Fugitsu Plasma TV doesn't have HDMI. I have component, VGA, and a DVI port that is not HDCP compliant. I may have to go with something like the HD Fury. Thanks Hollywood for making my super expensive TV that looks great obsolete, or focing me into an unsupported solution just to watch my content that I legally purchased.

[tbergman]

next they're going to disable my optical/digital coax... yeah you don't have an expensive enough receiver, you get to use these super sweet L/R audio connections. Hope you didn't like your surround sound.

[darien87]

I've hated HDMI cables almost since day one. They're a complete pain in the ***. Good luck trying to make a change to your system or move a component around in your rack without having the damn cable come unconnected. Why couldn't they have at least come up with some kind of lock?!?!?

Now I've got tons of issues with my UMC-1 that I'm sure most of which are not Emotiva's fault. They had to design the unit to comply with HDCP and it's causing all sorts of headaches. Does someone want to try to explain why my amp wouldn't trigger on when I had my TV hooked up with both HDMI and Component video cables from my cable box, but triggered just fine when I only had HDMI connected?!?!?

HDMI and HDCP are utter bullshit.

[HookedOnSound]

Dumb question:

Do these rules apply only to blu-ray players? Or does it include display devices?