On 2/24/07, James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I really don't know how the HD market will go. My current thought is that if I purchase a new monitor that I would want wide screen and the DRM people consider WXGA (1280 x7 68) as a high resolution format. If HD and wide screen become popular, this could have a serious negative effect on the Linux/*NIX market.
If such a doomsday scenario were to occur(which is highly unlikely, especially to the degree that you couldn't use WXGA, which is markedly low res), the Linux/*NIX market is well enough established that someone would fight for their ability to use Linux with the monitor of their choice. Fighting on the same side would be Windows users with graphics cards that don't support HDCP, since they'd be similarly disadvantaged.
It is possible that AACS will be completely cracked by the end of the year. Is so, this would make only a small difference in what the market would need. It might still be necessary to have HDMI/HDCP output and a hardware accelerator to decode AACS.
If AACS was cracked, it wouldn't matter if you had HDCP support, HDCP has nothing to do with AACS in a technical way. The only way they are related is through licensing agreements. Regardless, it would still be illegal to support this decoding in the US, no matter how trivial it were. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
