bloody truth indeed.

After I told my dad about sony's rootkit, and told him NOT to buy the HD tv he was looking at because it wasn't going to support the hdcp flag and he wont see what he wants would be in hdcp anyway, he's boycotting sony. Granted other companies also released tv's that dont support hdcp and this will screw over people with hd disc players that require it and the broadcast flag, but combined with the insult that people shouldn't bother with the rootkit because they don't know what it is, the ability to disable a hd-disc player remotely if it's found playing illegitimate material or "anything it's not suppossed to do", being one the the big driving forces behind DRM, Infecting people with rootkits in the first place, setting higher prices on their blu-ray movie discs than they should be and continuing to sell TV's that arn't supporting hdcp - the very DRM they're pushing,

- my family is boycotting sony.

Sony did a backflip into the lava

"Unlike DVI, DisplayPort also supports content protection via 128-bit ASE encryption"

note to self: do not be stupid and fund this crap; if i've paid for a monitor i'll watch whatever i damnwell please on it.

Connectors.

Are the connectors going to work any better than HDMI connectors, and (GASP!) SATA (I know, not display) connectors?

Composite connectors are solid. S-video connectors are less solid.

DVI connectors are solid. HDMI connectors are not so solid.

IDE connectors are solid. SATA connectors plain SUCK!

Why the nasty trend of making less solid and reliable connectors when ne w technological signaling and cables are introduced? Is there a poll or petition somewhere we can use to complain to the standards creators?

So is there any way for us to realistically fight DRM or are they just going to shove it up our ass with zero resistance?

DRM?

kthxbye. I just want to plug end A of cable into PC and end B of cable into screen. Why does DRM have to poke its head where it has no right to be?

Wheres the real advancement?

Dual Link DVI according to those specs is 9.9 Gbps and has no sound. Another 0.9 Gbps, woo wee woopity do!
BTW how much of that bandwidth is extra gravy DRM appeasement? HDCP retardation isn't enough? (attn internet: cracknowplzthx)

I personally hate HDMI but its important to note that it does have 2 channel sound and 10bit (12? whatever, its more than 8) color when used, and soon will have a 'dual link' equivalent actually supported in hardware.

I though maybe they would actually be looking towards the future with bigger resolutions and/or more bits per color. And if they have sound, at the very least a full 5.1 bitstream or more.

Otherwise, why should anyone give up dual link DVI, now that you can finally buy non-overpriced cables and its nearly universal on gfx cards.

Higher resolution???? colour depth??? 32bit now 64 bit???? can some one explain me WTF is this ????

Great, so now I need a videocard that supports:

DirectX 10
DisplayPort 1.0
HDMI

For Vista and HD content to work.

Right? Or am I missing something here?

ROFL, Dislayport 1.0 = computer verison of HDMI.

to accomdate vista? WTF!!! wut if i dont wanna use vista? there are other os's out there. osx x86 anyone?

Umm, did i just see a double post ?? what's going on ?

Adi

Lets hope they implement it sans DRM protection. It's nice to finally have a combined computer, TV, and general A/V standard, but DRMing it down will lead to more incompatibilities, privacy and legal concerns from both companies and consumers, higher costs, workarounds, and more things just plain not working.

And honestly, people expected all the tech bells and whistles: 10.8 giga-bit bandwidth, more color-depth, and highly scalable to large resolutions and screen sizes. Whadda you think they'd make - a new standard only for 15" CRTs (maybe it'd support color, like TV's in the 1950's ;-)? Backwards compatibility will initially be important, but just like current vga-dvi converters did for CRTs -> LCDs, it won't practically matter once products really start rolling out.

~David~

BTW - did they mean 128-bit AES encryption? What is ASE?

Windows Vista, which will allegedly support higher resolutions and color depths than Windows XP.

Are there actually displays that support higher resolutions than XP can handle? And would anyone actually attach one to a computer that runs Windows?

Bah, content protection. They can protect deez...

DisplayPort or Unified Display Interface (UDI) ?

Go Vote now!
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