tomato
01-25-2006, 10:03 PM
"The company behind the Advanced Access Content System copy protection scheme (that's going to be used on both Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD) have officially decided this week to require hardware manufactures to prevent full 1080-line resolution video signals (1920x1080) from being passed through unprotected analog outputs (read: component connections)
...most movie discs are only going to be displayed at full 1080 resolution through digital HDMI connections. If you don't have HDMI on your HDTV or projector (we're not sure if DVI-to-HDMI adapted connections will be affected), the best you'll be able to see through your component cables is an electronically down-converted 540 lines (960x540 lines). That's just a tad better than regular DVD, which weighs in at 480-line resolution (720x480)"
Read the whole article here:
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/mytwocentsa114.html#downc
Bottom line: early adopter without HDTV's will be screwed... for now :roll:
...most movie discs are only going to be displayed at full 1080 resolution through digital HDMI connections. If you don't have HDMI on your HDTV or projector (we're not sure if DVI-to-HDMI adapted connections will be affected), the best you'll be able to see through your component cables is an electronically down-converted 540 lines (960x540 lines). That's just a tad better than regular DVD, which weighs in at 480-line resolution (720x480)"
Read the whole article here:
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/mytwocentsa114.html#downc
Bottom line: early adopter without HDTV's will be screwed... for now :roll: