Simon wrote:
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 x768) 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),
Depends on the monitor size. I currently have a 15 inch 4:3 monitor
with 768 vertical resolution and it is quite adequate. My 32 inch TV is
WXGA and there really isn't any need for more resolution at that size
TV. However, the point is that the AACS and HDCP people consider WXGA
to be High Resolution.
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.
I agree that there will be a lot of displeased customers. I can only
wonder what will happen.
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.
The only issue with HDCP would then be whether the monitor will accept
High Resolution HDMI or digital DVI without it.
Regardless, it would still be illegal to support this decoding in the
US, no matter how trivial it were.
Decoding AACS would be illegal in the US, but so is defeating CSS (for
regular DVDs). What would change is that it is perfectly legal to sell
hardware accelerators to decode H.264 HiP 1080p/30 and there would be a
demand for these without AACS decoders in them.
--
JRT
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