more on STUPID STUPID High-Def Forced To Down-Convert

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Newmedia () aol com
Date: January 25, 2006 4:02:55 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] ] more on STUPID STUPID High-Def Forced To Down- 
Convert

Dave:

> When are people going take the hint that
> Hollywood does not want HD to be successful?
Quite the contrary -- the studios are completely betting their future  
on HD . . . completely.  Super HD (4K x 2K) is in the theaters now  
and coming to our homes in a few years.  Ultra HD (8K x 4K) is in the  
labs now.

This is precisely why they are insisting that all digital interfaces  
be encrypted and out-of-control analog interfaces be down-converted.   
These are businesses that are structured around the ability to resell  
(and resell) previous investments.  They must control access to their  
only assets -- their libraries.

The fact that we will all have to buy new equipment to view this HD  
media is also an important part of the picture -- that's how the  
equipment vendors have been brought into the game.  Lotsa forced  
obsolesence means lotsa growth in equipment sales.

But more importantly -- much more importantly -- the inevitable shift  
to systems with security built into every interface is laying the  
basis for consumer systems that can attempt to handle really critical  
data securely.  In particular, our personal financial and medical  
information.  Really critical data.

Media is simply the sharp edge of a much larger wedge -- the  
conversion of *every* aspect of our economy to digital services.

Physical-level security is necessary for any of this to happen and  
encrypted digital interfaces are a crucial step in that direction.

Resistance -- for better or worse -- is futile,

Mark Stahlman
New York City



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