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"Wayne M. Poe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> While that is true... is it really worth it to purchase something you
> cannot use fully (if you have an HD TV wthout HDCP and such), to spend
> money on something you wont actually watch, but instead of shelve it and
> go download the same...
>
> Honestly, I'd have no trouble embracing HD optical formats and such if the
> media industries would just play fair and quit trampling all over Fair-Use
> rights, and in the case of HDCP and HD monitors that do not support it...
> completely screwing people.
>
> While one could do as you suggest, I still find it hard to give me money
> to those who want to rip me off.
Me too. I refuse to by any DRM music but there is no legal way to buy
non-DRM movies. While I could care less about buying movies anyway, the
kids and grandkids like them so I do buy them.
I heard that one of the new HD-DVD formats will let you make up to 6 copies
to a hard drive. At least that will let you play those DVDs from your HTPC
to appropriate hardware for up to the lifespan of 6 HTPCs.
>
> Dale wrote:
>> You could always buy the movie and download the rip.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> "Saran" <none@nospam> wrote in message
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>> > Robert Robinson wrote:
>> > > Blu-ray drives are now available for a fairly reasonable cost. The
>> > > most interesting drive is perhaps the LG GGW-H10N which can read
>> > > both DVD HD and Blu-ray media in addition to the older DVD and
>> > > CD-ROM formats. One catch, which is believed to apply to all the HD
>> > > and Blu-ray drives, is the requirement to have a video adapter and
>> > > a connected display that are both HDMI compliant if one is to play
>> > > DRM protected media. Any experience with this PC based high
>> > > definition technology, especially in regard to the video adapter
>> > > and display HDMI requirements ?
>> >
>> > Yeah its all a load of crap... the media companies + Microsoft
>> > pushing the DRM... the artificial requirements to play media you've
>> > bought... it's like treating the people who actually pay for the
>> > goods liek they are the criminals, forcing us to jump through all
>> > the hoops while patting our heards and rubbing our stomachs... while
>> > at the same time anyone with a properly configured bit-torrent
>> > client can download HD rips and play them on any divx compatible
>> > player, no special hard ware or DRM infested software needed, and
>> > quality that looks great... no HDCP (HDMI interface at all) required.
>> >
>> > With all that, I find it hard to blame the average downloader of such
>> > rips, illegal or not. If you bought an HLTV more than 2 years ago it
>> > wont support HDCP most likely and you wont be abel to use set top
>> > players or output from your computer in HD quality using
>> > HD-DVD/Bluray... How the hell is this fair, someone please tell me.
>> >
>> > who is more in the wrong, those download HD rips or the companies
>> > that screw their customers?
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