-
Join the MyBroadband community
South Africa’s biggest forum. Discuss, discover, and connect with thousands of members.
-
Question of the Day: What's the most interesting small town you've visited in South Africa?
Blu-Ray drive
- Thread starter koffiejunkie
- Start date
koffiejunkie
Executive Member
You can't officially watch DVDs on Linux either. There's always a way...
True but it's just a pity that Apple didn't include HDCP. Then again their 30 inch Cinema HD displays are not certified either. Thankfully my 30inch Dell is, as is the cheapo 24 inch Acer I've got hooked up too.
Otherthan AnyDVD and Fengtao's DVDDecryper I don't know of any PC
apps to rip or (watch without HDCP) high def DVDs. Are there any for the MAC? Will VideoLan do it in the future? Who will take on the MPAA?
koffiejunkie
Executive Member
Are there any for the MAC? Will VideoLan do it in the future? Who will take on the MPAA?
Dunno but it's only a matter of time before DVD-Jon figures it out and MPlayer picks up support for it.
BiteMe
Expert Member
True but it's just a pity that Apple didn't include HDCP. Then again their 30 inch Cinema HD displays are not certified either. Thankfully my 30inch Dell is, as is the cheapo 24 inch Acer I've got hooked up too.
Otherthan AnyDVD and Fengtao's DVDDecryper I don't know of any PC
apps to rip or (watch without HDCP) high def DVDs. Are there any for the MAC? Will VideoLan do it in the future? Who will take on the MPAA?
this (hdcp talk) all is a moot point currently as the ICT flag is not enforced yet (and perhaps, never will be), so hdcp compliance is not checked.
think: xbox360, hddvd addon, component output (analog signal...) all works fine. if/when ICT is enforced then this combo will fall back to displaying the movies in a quarter resolution...and ms has more money to fight this. same holds true for blu-ray discs...no ICT enforced yet.
"Hollywood has reportedly agreed to not activate this flag for discs released in either of the two formats until 2012"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_Constraint_Token
and by then, trust me, you will have a new tv/monitor or whatever, so noone cares about HDCP right now
YES but there is no legal way or at least NO OFFICIAL way to watch BD or HD-DVDs on a Mac even though many of the Macs have the graphics card, CPU and screen realestate to render full HD. The only official software to play
DVDs on Macs is the Apple DVD Player application. Now that doesn't support HD except for its own prorietory
HD QT format on ordinary DVDs. On the PC both WinDVD and PowerDVD support the next gen formats and I believe
they may check the HDCP flag anyhow because many people need to buy Slysoft's AnyDVDHD or at least they
make sure that a PROTECTED pathway exists on the machine.
As for no-one caring about HDCP there are many digital set top boxes for
HD TV over cable/satellite abroad which accept ONLY HDCP hardware,
and the statement issued by the MPAA is not binding in legislation. HD downresolution on purpose is actually ILLEGAL in Japan (until 2010 at least)
but it merely seems to be a gentleman's agreement for North America.
We'll see....
As for cracking the next gen DVD copy protections, Slysoft has done so long ago. DVDJohn is not necessary.
My point is that PowerDVD and WinDVD both have versions of their software that can play next gen DVD but Apple does not and doesn't seem to care about giving their users the option of doing so even with Leopard.
Last edited: