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Here is Bob's latest email and he obviously believes that those of us with
only component inputs will not be able to watch high definition television.
Hugh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Rapoport" <[email protected]>
To: "Hugh Campbell" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: Your Advertisement for the HDS-41R
> Hi Hugh,
>
> OK. At least we agree on part of what I am saying. The problem, at
> least from our perspective, is that when analog broadcasting ends, the HD
> output from the analog component jacks you are using now will end too.
> You will have to buy a converter box to even watch broadcast television on
> your HDTV and it will only output standard def.
>
> As hard as it is to believe, what I am saying is true. Your HDTV, if
> Congress has its way, will be obsolete soon. PureLink makes a DVI to
> VGA converter (see our homepage) that converts digital HD content to
> analog VGA, as long as its not copy protected or encrypted. Up until a
> few weeks ago, it worked with HDCP as well. However, we were threatened
> with legal action by HDCP lawyers so we took the HDCP IC out. We began
> checking with the source manufacturers, like Samsung, and found out that
> they will provide you with a secret code from their tech support dept to
> turn off the HDCP on their latest upconverting DVD players. Denon too.
> We think the reason they included these escape hatches is that they knew
> when they started building these devices that the courts might intervene
> and stop HDCP, like they have every copy protection scheme. Here's
> another link:
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120748,00.asp
>
> This story would seem to support your point of view. If it werent for
> the fact that the Senate is considering new legislation to give the FCC
> the right to do what the content providers want, I might agree with you.
> However, I suspect the new law will pass and that it will result in the
> analog hole closing on schedule.
> They will use "national security" to push it. The current analog
> broadcast spectrum is where they want to put the first responder
> communication system.
>
> My ad for the the HDMI switcher is straight forward and not confusing.
> However, I agree with you that an HDMI switcher with component inputs,
> upscaling, and separate audio breakout would be nice. We are working on
> one now. Current HDMI does not support multi-channel audio so we
> recommend that our customers use a separate audio output to feed their
> receiver or preamp.
>
> Bob
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Here is Bob's latest email and he obviously believes that those of us with
only component inputs will not be able to watch high definition television.
Hugh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Rapoport" <[email protected]>
To: "Hugh Campbell" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: Your Advertisement for the HDS-41R
> Hi Hugh,
>
> OK. At least we agree on part of what I am saying. The problem, at
> least from our perspective, is that when analog broadcasting ends, the HD
> output from the analog component jacks you are using now will end too.
> You will have to buy a converter box to even watch broadcast television on
> your HDTV and it will only output standard def.
>
> As hard as it is to believe, what I am saying is true. Your HDTV, if
> Congress has its way, will be obsolete soon. PureLink makes a DVI to
> VGA converter (see our homepage) that converts digital HD content to
> analog VGA, as long as its not copy protected or encrypted. Up until a
> few weeks ago, it worked with HDCP as well. However, we were threatened
> with legal action by HDCP lawyers so we took the HDCP IC out. We began
> checking with the source manufacturers, like Samsung, and found out that
> they will provide you with a secret code from their tech support dept to
> turn off the HDCP on their latest upconverting DVD players. Denon too.
> We think the reason they included these escape hatches is that they knew
> when they started building these devices that the courts might intervene
> and stop HDCP, like they have every copy protection scheme. Here's
> another link:
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120748,00.asp
>
> This story would seem to support your point of view. If it werent for
> the fact that the Senate is considering new legislation to give the FCC
> the right to do what the content providers want, I might agree with you.
> However, I suspect the new law will pass and that it will result in the
> analog hole closing on schedule.
> They will use "national security" to push it. The current analog
> broadcast spectrum is where they want to put the first responder
> communication system.
>
> My ad for the the HDMI switcher is straight forward and not confusing.
> However, I agree with you that an HDMI switcher with component inputs,
> upscaling, and separate audio breakout would be nice. We are working on
> one now. Current HDMI does not support multi-channel audio so we
> recommend that our customers use a separate audio output to feed their
> receiver or preamp.
>
> Bob
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