[ EEPI-Discuss ] HDTV Output Confusion

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

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From: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: [IP] more on  Tellywood and the Cable Orifices
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 07:57:55 -0400
To: Ip ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>

Calling it a mess is a big understatement djf

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From: Tim Onosko <onosko@gmail.com>
Date: June 12, 2005 4:51:29 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Tellywood and the Cable Orifices
Reply-To: tim@onosko.com

      > I don't have time to write a full comment so I'll just note
      > I tried hooking up a DVI cable to my Comcast/Motorola STB
      > while viewing component video on my Dell 1920x1200 monitor
      > and up popped a message:  HDCP Authentication Failed. Please
      > use the YPbPr outputs for your HD connection.

There may be another side effect to the situation Bob Frankston  
described above.  Those YPbPr inputs are analog, not digital inputs,  
and in accordance with FCC rules, the channels he wanted to view on  
that monitor might be visible, but downgraded to 480P (which, in  
turn, would be uprezzed to fill the Dell monitor screen.)  Cable  
rules allow this, and in fact stipulate this treatment for non- 
digital, non DRM'd inputs (like HDCP and DVI.)  It's the compromise,  
wherein you can watch what you pay for, but not in HD, because of the  
so-called "analog hole" -- read "loophole."

Under this scenario, it's quite possible that people paying for high- 
def channels may either never see them in HD, or see something  
uprezzed that looks sort of okay but not.

This is a mess.
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