FCC Allowing Hollywood to Disable Analog Output

[panhead20]

My 1st generation plasma only has analog inputs. The dvd player warns me everytime I play a dvd that it is down sampling to 480p due to non HDMI connection. My solution, I strip the encryption from the dvd with DVDFab and then I can watch the ripped copy at 1080i. MPAA go f$%k yourself.

 

[drwho1]

After my first DVD fail, of course I started backing up my DVD's
I own over 300 DVD's what should I do... just wait unil all of them fail? hell no!

and by the way the disk that fail had no visible scratches or anything, it just stop working for no reason, I also tested it on 4 different players, the disk just died.

 

[hellwig]

How many people pay ridiculous Cable or Satellite Pay-Per-View prices anyway? Sure, you might get that movie a little earlier than it's released, but if you loved the movie that much, you need to get an f-ing life.

How many refunds are Comcast, DirectTv, etc.. going to have to give out each time someone with an old TV calls in to complain about the fact that the movie they paid to watch isn't showing on their TV?

Comcast had a HUGE campaign making sure all their subscribers knew they wouldn't have to update their TV for the digital-TV switch. I can see the class-action lawsuit now, and it will be glorious.

 

[Guest]

HDMI has DRM built in and they made me pay $80 for the cable!
Why again did we all switch from component and fiber optic surround sound?

 

[audioee]

[citation][nom]panhead20[/nom]My 1st generation plasma only has analog inputs. The dvd player warns me everytime I play a dvd that it is down sampling to 480p due to non HDMI connection. My solution, I strip the encryption from the dvd with DVDFab and then I can watch the ripped copy at 1080i. MPAA go f$%k yourself.[/citation]

panhead, Your DVD player is not downsampling the DVD to 480P. It is just not upconverting it to 1080i. DVDs are no more than 480p res. Also, since your Plasma is 1st generation, it is most likely only a 1366 X 768 pitcure. So upconverting to 1080i and then having the TV downconvert to its native res can be, and most like is, a bad thing.

 

[audioee]

[citation][nom]dasterd[/nom]HDMI has DRM built in and they made me pay $80 for the cable!Why again did we all switch from component and fiber optic surround sound?[/citation]

You paid $80 for the cable. No one else made you pay that amount for an HDMI cable.

Check online prices.http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10240 To me it appears that the cables are no more than $2 per ft.

 

[nukem950]

You know, for the freedoms the media has, they sure are working hard to make sure we do not have any.

 

[audioee]

I meant to have a link in my last post.

http/www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10240

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Analog? What's that? Wait a minute.....it's coming back to me......:lol:

 

[thesupermedium]

Excuse me while I park my truck in the front door of the MPAA building and then proceed to honk my horn repeatedly. Who the hell do those people think they are to control my first amendment rights? The Federal Communist Commission is supposed to protect consumers from being scammed by fake TV ads and to make sure porn isn't playing on Nick Jr, not to allow fat cats to throttle us and regain their criminal profit margins. Things are seriously screwed up these days.

 

[Clintonio]

I will only buy movies if they're from a source without DRM/crazy piracy views. That's how I'm protesting.

 

[bv90andy]

Wait analog? are we in the 90s? *goes to tv to check for analog jacks*

 

[slaphappy]

lol wtf, do they honestly think people are pirating movies by connecting a vcr or something to the Yellow composite out jack and clicking "record" on their remotes?! Jesus christ what high school interns do they have working in their anti-piracy divisions??? Gosh can I please get a job working for you warner bros? I will show you dozens of distribution outlets for your product and all the DRM stripped copies that exist. I mean cmon this is childs play. Disabling analog outputs to stop piracy, NOBODY MAKES COPIES LIKE THIS YOU FUCKING IDIOTS!

 

[americanbrian]

So can consumers return their DVR equipment as it no longer works as advertised? I feel a lawsuit coming on seperate to the FCC. Just because the FCC allows it to be used on the broadcast doesn't make its use legal entirely. Fair trade/use laws may exclude the use of this technology.

I hope so. As it seems unfair that companies are trying to articficially constrain the use of consumers' technology.

 

[mavanhel]

F*ck you FCC, get the f*ck out of my house! This crap really pisses me off. Sure, the studio has rights to their own copyright material, but we have some basic privacy rights too!

 

[Guest]

I stopped buying VOD movies many years ago since the cable company always "broadcasted" the signal with some pixelation. Prices for on demand movies even increased, and FCC does not seem to protect our 1st Amendment rights.

Do we still leave in the free country who protect civil rights? How could it be possible that FCC can be influenced by private companies that decided to control my legally purchased products?
A nice class action suit against FCC and MPAA should be on the horizont.