more on Tellywood and the Cable Orifices

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Calling it a mess is a big understatement djf

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From: Tim Onosko <onosko () gmail com>
Date: June 12, 2005 4:51:29 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Tellywood and the Cable Orifices
Reply-To: tim () onosko com


     I don't have time to write a full comment so I'll just note – I  
tried
hooking up a DVI cable to my Comcast/Motorola STB while viewing
component video on my Dell 1920x1200 monitor and up popped a message:
HDCP Authentication Failed. Please use the YPbPr outputs for your HD
connection.


There may be another side effect to the situation Bob Franskston  
described above.  Those YPbPr inputs are analog, not digital inputs,  
and in accordance with FCC rules, the channels he wanted to view on  
that monitor might be visible, but downgraded to 480P (which, in  
turn, would be uprezzed to fill the Dell monitor screen.)  Cable  
rules allow this, and in fact stipulate this treatment for non- 
digital, non DRM'd inputs (like HDCP and DVI.)  It's the compromise,  
wherein you can watch what you pay for, but not in HD, because of the  
so-called "analog hole" -- read "loophole."

Under this scenario, it's quite possible that people paying for high- 
def channels may either never see them in HD, or see something  
uprezzed that looks sort of okay but not.

This is a mess.


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