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Re: Re: SWMBO caught me off guard!
Jamie Bennett wrote:
> On 1/5/06, Stephen Jones <ukha@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Jamie Bennett wrote:
>> > HDCP is a standard which is used by sky to enable content
>> > protection and without it you don't have sky HD.
>>
>> Is this right? The last I heard about the Sky HD service/kit was
that the
>> boxes were having to incorporate component connections so as to
still feed
>>a
>> HD signal to non HDCP compliant screens. I could be wrong of
course.
>
>
> The first Sky+ HD boxes will have component which was a decision made
> by Sky as they felt DVI and HDMI connections aren't as main-stream as
> they would of liked at this stage. This will quickly be phased out and
> the word is that at some point they will turn off support for their
> broadcasts through component but this is just a rumour at the moment.
Wasn't there also an issue some time ago whereby they were selling a
"future-proof HD ready" plasma screen package that, erm, didn't
have
HDCP? Oops!
James
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