Sony, others will play HD content properly on Analog systems

[Gizmo]

PC World is reporting that Sony, among others, will NOT be using the 'Image Constraint Token', at least on their first generation of Blue-Ray and HD-DVD disks. What this means for us is that anyone who has purchased an HD display that doesn't have HDMI input capability, or a player that doesn't have HDMI output capability, will still be able to view HD content in its full glory instead of having it scaled back to normal DVD levels.

[Favu]

I'm guessing that this can only be a good thing for end users

[Got EpOx]

Good news for HDTV owners

[madcatmk3]

this is what I got. to bad I'm not getting a PS3, I would if they would unify the 360 controller but now there ***** and bannanas.

[Áedán]

What has that got to do with displays with no HDMI inputs?

[Favu]

This is what I have. And AFAIK it has nothing to do with displays without HDMI

[Gizmo]

I am probably mistaken, but I was under the impression that the whole content protection thing hinged around being able to send an encoded bitstream using the HDMI interface. If you don't have HDMI, you can't get the encoded bitstream, and hence can only have the reduced quality analog signal.

[Favu]

I was refferring to Áedán's post, assuming Áedán's post was referring to madcatmk3's post....

Was I wrong?

[Gizmo]

It was probably me, misreading Áedán's post.....

[madcatmk3]

mine sort of refers since I just found my HDMI port and it's pretty useless so far, the 360 doesn't use it, my PC doesn't use it. ANyway ya it's sort of off topic.

[Áedán]

HDMI and DVI are pretty much the same thing, except that HDMI also supports a form of encryption for content protection. Thus you can connect a DVI transmitter to an HDMI display happily.