radish;295215 Wrote: > Huh? The majors haven't sold anything analog in years...and if you look > at the world of video the copyright holders are forcing a move away > from analog (component) to digital (hdmi) in order to add DRM. I think Pat's referring to post-CD digital formats such as SACD and DVD-A. If I understand correctly, Sony mandated that no consumer SACD player would output an unencrypted digital signal. And DVD-A defines a "down-sampled" unencrypted digital output. All ways the industry attempts to keep the digital information locked up on the disc and give you access to only an analog output.
The average consumer seems quite content to live with analog interconnection. Since consumers, by and large, aren't asking for it, and the industry doesn't seem to want it anyway, I think the motivations are AGAINST developing and/or deploying multichannel digital interconnection. HDMI *may* continue to gain ground, not because it's digital, but because it eliminates to rats-nest of analog cables. So far as DRM, the only legitimate thorn in the industry's side is consumer's desires to rip content for their iPods. Apple has so far been somewhat successful at putting their fingers in the DRM dike with the tight integration of the ITMS, so DRM concerns are handled "automagically". But market forces, such as Amazon's non-DRM MP3's, Micrsoft turning off the "plays for sure" authorization servers, and the number of people who have non-Apple MP3 players are starting to breach the industry's DRM "dike". However, I'll be surprised if this has any effect on multichannel and/or HiRes DRM anytime soon... -- Timothy Stockman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Timothy Stockman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8867 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43025 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
