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Thursday, 11 October 2007
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Written by
Jerry Del Colliano
Despite
screams of disgust from early adopting consumers and audio-video
installers over horrible connectivity problems via the copy-protected
HDMI digital cables, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the
lobby group for the audio-video industry, recently refused to allow a
standard that would allow 1080p video to flow through a standard analog
component video cable. Analog component cables do not have the HDCP
digital copy protection that Hollywood studios demand to protect their
highest resolution video output. HDMI digital cables in their current
1.3b version theoretically carry both 1080p video and the highest
resolution multi-channel surround sound, bitstream formats such as
Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master HD. However, they are plagued with horrible
connectivity issues due mostly to the HDCP copy protection that the
studios have forced into the specification.
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