Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-27 Thread Dave
On 5/27/05, Craig Partin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/25/05, Greg Depasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/24/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > You know what the really annoying thing is. Since Joe Public doesn't > > > know what HDCP stands for--and typically guess

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-27 Thread john sturgeon
On 5/27/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/27/05, Kyle Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was looking at TVs at Best Buy recently and thought it was funny > > > that they had HDCP on all the sets as if it were a feature. > > > > Sadly, it's a feature in the same sense that a rob

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/27/05, Kyle Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was looking at TVs at Best Buy recently and thought it was funny > > that they had HDCP on all the sets as if it were a feature. > > Sadly, it's a feature in the same sense that a robber that takes only > appliances and not jewelry is a featur

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-27 Thread Kyle Rose
> I was looking at TVs at Best Buy recently and thought it was funny > that they had HDCP on all the sets as if it were a feature. Sadly, it's a feature in the same sense that a robber that takes only appliances and not jewelry is a feature that might make him more acceptable than a robber who ste

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-27 Thread Craig Partin
On 5/25/05, Greg Depasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/24/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You know what the really annoying thing is. Since Joe Public doesn't > > know what HDCP stands for--and typically guesses it's some "High > > Definition" thing--the marketing guys

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-25 Thread Andrew Close
On 5/25/05, Greg Depasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/24/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You know what the really annoying thing is. Since Joe Public doesn't > > know what HDCP stands for--and typically guesses it's some "High > > Definition" thing--the marketing guys

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-25 Thread Greg Depasse
On 5/24/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You know what the really annoying thing is.  Since Joe Public doesn'tknow what HDCP stands for--and typically guesses it's some "HighDefinition" thing--the marketing guys actually have people believing they're getting a good thing when the TV s

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-25 Thread Jonathan Watmough
On 5/25/05, Simon Kenyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 21:39, Greg Grotsky wrote:> That is horrible.  I'm planning on getting a Sammy DLP, only I'm> planning on using the DVI.  There's no HDCP on DVI, right?  Why would> they even bother putting a restriction like that when you c

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-25 Thread Simon Kenyon
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 21:39, Greg Grotsky wrote: > That is horrible. I'm planning on getting a Sammy DLP, only I'm > planning on using the DVI. There's no HDCP on DVI, right? Why would > they even bother putting a restriction like that when you can get > around it with DVI? > > -Greg > > On 5/2

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-24 Thread Michael T. Dean
Greg Grotsky wrote: On 5/24/05, Thor Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another consideration about Samsung, is iirc there was someone on this list that couldn't get mythtv over the HDMI port. After much headbanging, he found that Samsung wouldn't accept HDMI without HDCP... That is h

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-24 Thread Greg Grotsky
That is horrible. I'm planning on getting a Sammy DLP, only I'm planning on using the DVI. There's no HDCP on DVI, right? Why would they even bother putting a restriction like that when you can get around it with DVI? -Greg On 5/24/05, Thor Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another consider

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-24 Thread Thor Johnson
Another consideration about Samsung, is iirc there was someone on this list that couldn't get mythtv over the HDMI port. After much headbanging, he found that Samsung wouldn't accept HDMI without HDCP... -Thor Johnson On 5/22/05, Bernd Paysan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 22 May 2005 17

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-22 Thread Bernd Paysan
On Sunday 22 May 2005 17:52, Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote: > Matt Mossholder wrote: > > It's my understanding that this is a limitation of HDMI/DVI, not > > something that Samsung chose not to implement. It doesn't support > > enough bandwidth to do 1080p. > > This is not true. There are several LCD m

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-22 Thread Mario Limonciello
I'm not particularly sure how my LCD did this, but when I took DVI from my HD cable box, the LCD switched over to 1920x1079 60Hz (per the info screen on the LCD). It doesn't really seem right that it should have been able to do this, since its only a 19" LCD that normally has a native res of 1280x

[mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-22 Thread Boleslaw Ciesielski
Matt Mossholder wrote: It's my understanding that this is a limitation of HDMI/DVI, not something that Samsung chose not to implement. It doesn't support enough bandwidth to do 1080p. This is not true. There are several LCD monitors (e.g. Dell 2405FP) that support 1920x1200 (progressive of cou