From: "Geo" 

"Tony Williams"  wrote in message
news:43506912{at}w3.nls.net...

> Is that a given? What's to stop manufacturers producing monitors which
> will play HD-DVDs without any messing about with DRM (honest question -
> I've not been following this as closely as some here).

Yes it's a given, you have to license the decoder chips, if you don't bow
to the media companies who own the copyrights/patents on those chips you
can't play the content. If you piss them off, you get no chips, you can't
provide devices that will play protected HD content without those chips.

Geo.

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