From: "Geo" 

It would need to be a big company. All the little ones get sued out of
existence by the MPAA if they make something without the required copy
protection thanks to the DMCA..

You did hear that Kiss Technology was purchased by Cisco? That's the other
thing that keeps happening to these little companies that make the good
toys.

Geo.

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:443c7b5a{at}w3....
> I sense a business opportunity to a brave company who would produce HDTV &
> other new cool entertainment technology and leave out all this
> lets-make-it-difficult-to-the-end-user-to-use copy
"protection" crap...
> Given the choice of units that just work vs. units that may work if
someone
> else has decided so and if I am willing to pay the extra of all these
other
> "requirements", should be a no-brainer.

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