Comment: "It is illegal(due to the DMCA) to make any Blu-ray player with any kind of an analog output anymore. The anti circumvention clause of the DMCA was wr itten so broadly that anything like a Blu-ray player with analog output wou ld be considered a circumvention device, and any company making analog outp ut on a Blu-ray player would have their license revoked, and be shut down."
Michael
OK, we'll all have to get a digital interface implant under one ear then.
Your comment is three days old.
Jeroen Belleman
Or simply use DVD players, I guess.
It's closer to a year old :)
Michael
Oh, wait, 2 years old. It's not 2015 anymore? Hahaha. I can't count anymore...
Michael
So putting a Blu-Ray drive in a PC with a VGA output is illegal?
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
d of an analog output anymore. The anti circumvention clause of the DMCA wa s written so broadly that anything like a Blu-ray player with analog output would be considered a circumvention device, and any company making analog output on a Blu-ray player would have their license revoked, and be shut do wn."
Hahaha, I guess so! (And maybe that's a better solution!)
Michael
GREAT SCOTT! 2016 and not a single Flux Capacitor to be seen. I'm stuck here. At least there are now self lacing shoes and hover boards (self-combusting).
When I first heard hover boards were for sale, I thought they were copies of this.
When I actually saw one and realized it's a miniature Segway I was very disappointed.
Michael
Not if that's ALL you intend to accomplish. You left out 'reproducing coded video from a Blu-Ray disc through the VGA port'. Don't you recall the difficulties DVD-Jon had? DMCA might not make much sense, but it might make BluRay license restrictions very enforceable, in the US.
you do have Mr. Fusion... Must be some banana skins around somewhere..
Jamie
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, in the US.
Not a big deal to me--apart from one documentary about the family of a good friend of mine, I haven't watched a movie in nearly 30 years. (The last co mmercial one was "A Passage to India", in 1987ish.)
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
Note that it is just that. Some guy on the internet posting his opinion.
The DMCA itself probably doesn't matter unless you're planning on making a player which uses another manufacturer's decryption key.
A manufacturer who has been allocated a key will have entered into a constract to get that key. The contract will dictate issues such as honouring any constraint tokens stored in the content (these typically dictate that the content cannot be passed to an unencrypted output above a certain resolution).
The lack of players with analogue outputs is more a consequence of the fact that there aren't enough people who would want to connect a blu-ray player to an analogue monitor to justify the extra cost.
The PlayStation 3 can be used as a blu-ray player and has composite and component analogue video out, but that was one of the first blu-ray players, released when non-HDMI TVs were still quite common.
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