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Rich wrote:
>    I don't think the limited playback DVDs failed for the reason you
> suggest.  They were priced to compete with rentals not purchases.
>
>    Copy protection like macrovision survived the market just fine.


Yeah they generated a whole market in macro-blockers & an educational
item for elec salespeople (i.e. I have always asked if a given video has
macrovision & the sales person has nearly always been able to show me
those without).


> I
> expect the same for HD content with one exception.  There are early
> adopters that have HD displays or other components that support
> component or DVI w/o HDCP.  This wasn't an issue with macrovision or at
>  least not one I remember.
>

Not having a "macrovision capable" TV did not degrade the picture.

Adam

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