July 17, 2006

Want to View HD Content on Your PC? Upgrade Wisely
posted by Spock 18 years ago
  • Their software content protection will be cracked within days of activation, and PROMs (or hardware mods) that eliminate the hardware copy protection for HD-DVD drives will be available within months. I wouldn't rule out drives that ignore the content protection being sold by competitors in a few years, much like region-free DVD players. And since old graphics cards won't magically downsample an HD-DVD stream piped to it by appropriate software, within a year there will be a player that ignores the protection as well. Have the recording industries learned nothing? If the content can be played, it can be copied. Whats to stop someone from building a software emulator of the graphics card, protection and all?
  • Another technology that will not make it into casa Skrik. Won't these people learn?