Take note of this article if you own a PS3, it looks grim.
From the EFF:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/06/hollywood-drives-us-
It looks like Blu-ray players have been set into an Analog Sunset. This is exactly the analog hole plugging that the EFF is trying to prevent.
So, after 2013, you better have a HDCP HDMI HDTV or else you can't use your PS3 by the sounds of it. It sure sounds that PS3s will no longer have AV Multi Outs and exclusively use HDMI by that day.
This also is terrible for people with Intensity Pros as we'll have to get extra equipment to just capture from the PS3 soon.
This also means your Slingbox Pro-HD will no longer work on your Blu-ray player after as early as 2010 to stream the SECURE HD video to a PC or a Mac.
Some of you might say: "Oh but this is only for Blu-ray, games must be safe, right?" When it comes to upcoming restrictions, nothing can be guaranteed and the whole PS3 might lose it's analog outputs.
But, 360 fanboys can cheer since the 360 is not under the AACS ever since HD-DVD died. 360 will still output Analog HD and HDMI for years to come.
However, pretaining to my Intensity Pro, hopefully I'll be working at Greedy Productions where they've mastered the HD game video capturing process by the time the changes take place.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/06/hollywood-drives-us-
It looks like Blu-ray players have been set into an Analog Sunset. This is exactly the analog hole plugging that the EFF is trying to prevent.
So, after 2013, you better have a HDCP HDMI HDTV or else you can't use your PS3 by the sounds of it. It sure sounds that PS3s will no longer have AV Multi Outs and exclusively use HDMI by that day.
This also is terrible for people with Intensity Pros as we'll have to get extra equipment to just capture from the PS3 soon.
This also means your Slingbox Pro-HD will no longer work on your Blu-ray player after as early as 2010 to stream the SECURE HD video to a PC or a Mac.
Some of you might say: "Oh but this is only for Blu-ray, games must be safe, right?" When it comes to upcoming restrictions, nothing can be guaranteed and the whole PS3 might lose it's analog outputs.
But, 360 fanboys can cheer since the 360 is not under the AACS ever since HD-DVD died. 360 will still output Analog HD and HDMI for years to come.
However, pretaining to my Intensity Pro, hopefully I'll be working at Greedy Productions where they've mastered the HD game video capturing process by the time the changes take place.
posted by Jack Zhang at 8/16/2009 03:18:00 PM
2 Comments:
Interesting read.
Sony has their reasons of doing this though, and as a supporter I had to respect that.
I'm feeling sad for those people who love to record them playing games though. That's the real world though because apparently Sony is feeling that they are losing money.
Actually, the people behind AACS is implying the rules and Sony has to follow them. Expect the PS3 Slim to be HDMI only very soon.
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