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bic1ster at gmail

Feb 24, 2010, 12:50 PM

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composite video out to be disabled

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/19/1936209/2010-mdash-the-Year-AACS-and-HDMI-Kill-Off-HD-Component-Video

I guess this means new set top boxes will have composite disabled, which
means HD-PVR won't be able to do anything with the composite out?

ie, keep your current set top box as long as you can until another solution
comes out?

freedenizen at gmail

Feb 24, 2010, 12:53 PM

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Re: composite video out to be disabled [In reply to]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Scott Bickford <bic1ster [at] gmail> wrote:
> ie, keep your current set top box as long as you can until another solution
> comes out?

Called the HD Fury, does HDMI to analog.
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jedi at mishnet

Feb 24, 2010, 1:02 PM

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Re: composite video out to be disabled [In reply to]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:50:46PM -0500, Scott Bickford wrote:
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/19/1936209/2010-mdash-the-Year-AACS-and-HDMI-Kill-Off-HD-Component-Video
>
> I guess this means new set top boxes will have composite disabled, which
> means HD-PVR won't be able to do anything with the composite out?

Since this is AACS, I think this is mainly an issue for bluray devices.

Of course, my only bluray device has no video output at all... [chuckle]

>
> ie, keep your current set top box as long as you can until another solution
> comes out?

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beww at beww

Feb 24, 2010, 2:53 PM

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Re: composite video out to be disabled [In reply to]

On Wednesday 24 February 2010 01:53:40 pm freedenizen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Scott Bickford <bic1ster [at] gmail> wrote:
> > ie, keep your current set top box as long as you can until another
> > solution comes out?
>
> Called the HD Fury, does HDMI to analog.

Doesn't that output uncompressed video? If so, you better have a LOT of disk
space.
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Feb 24, 2010, 2:58 PM

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Re: composite video out to be disabled [In reply to]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Brian Wood <beww [at] beww> wrote:
> Doesn't that output uncompressed video? If so, you better have a LOT of disk
> space.

It can output component which you can feed into an HD-PVR
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Feb 24, 2010, 3:28 PM

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Re: composite video out to be disabled [In reply to]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Scott Bickford <bic1ster [at] gmail> wrote:
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/19/1936209/2010-mdash-the-Year-AACS-and-HDMI-Kill-Off-HD-Component-Video
>
> I guess this means new set top boxes will have composite disabled, which
> means HD-PVR won't be able to do anything with the composite out?
>
> ie, keep your current set top box as long as you can until another solution
> comes out?

you are adding to the already extensive confusion between composite
and component. The article refers to component, your $SUBJECT and post
refer to composite.
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beww at beww

Feb 24, 2010, 3:38 PM

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Re: composite video out to be disabled [In reply to]

On Wednesday 24 February 2010 03:58:06 pm freedenizen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Brian Wood <beww [at] beww> wrote:
> > Doesn't that output uncompressed video? If so, you better have a LOT of
> > disk space.
>
> It can output component which you can feed into an HD-PVR

Yeah, I was thinking of using it as a capture device, but you're right.

The real problem is that many older HD TV sets have only component inputs, are
the going to get them replaced for free? That doesn't seem fair.
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mythtv at theseekerr

Feb 24, 2010, 6:49 PM

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Re: composite video out to be disabled [In reply to]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Brian Wood <beww [at] beww> wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 February 2010 03:58:06 pm freedenizen wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Brian Wood <beww [at] beww> wrote:
>> > Doesn't that output uncompressed video? If so, you better have a LOT of
>> > disk space.
>>
>> It can output component which you can feed into an HD-PVR
>
> Yeah, I was thinking of using it as a capture device, but you're right.
>
> The real problem is that many older HD TV sets have only component inputs, are
> the going to get them replaced for free? That doesn't seem fair.

The suggestion isn't that component outputs will be disabled, but that
they will be forced to downscale to SD - where SD is defined to be, if
I recall, 576i with square pixels. So the image would be a little
better than a PAL DVD, and perhaps noticeably better than an NTSC DVD.

- Chris
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