DM Ragewaar Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 All over the net I'm seeing news articles about a method for breaking HDCP that works is in the public domain. What isn't clicking (no pun intended) for me is why is this big news? Can't we already decode blueray movies? (Not that I would know course :P ) What makes this a big deal? http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/09/1...-ray-Is-Cracked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 HDCP is the protection on the HDMI connection, not the blu-rays, but yes, blu-rays have been broken for a while (since about a month after the first blu-rays where released). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netshroud Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 True, but with the breaking the HDCP you can now make a perfect bit-for-bit copy, rather than decoding and reencoding. Or so a few sites have pointed out, I don't completely get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 True, but with the breaking the HDCP you can now make a perfect bit-for-bit copy, rather than decoding and reencoding. Or so a few sites have pointed out, I don't completely get it. Ripping the blu-ray will make a perfect copy... dumping a DVI stream is going to need lots and lots of space. DVI is a uncompressed digital signal... capable of 7.92Gb/s data transmission, you probably don't want to store this data, it will fill your hard disks so fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walom Posted September 24, 2010 Share Posted September 24, 2010 Hmm, so does anyone want to explain to a Layman what the big deal is about cracking HDCP? Because I thought the same as Ragewaar :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted September 24, 2010 Share Posted September 24, 2010 It means some one could make a HDMI/DVI capture device that would record straight from a blu-ray player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BattZ Posted September 24, 2010 Share Posted September 24, 2010 From what I've read, in order to do this, the person would need to make their own silicone chip. And if someone does go that far, Intel will get pissed and sue them for breaking it. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/i...tens-consumers/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deleted_Account Posted September 24, 2010 Share Posted September 24, 2010 Ripping the blu-ray will make a perfect copy... dumping a DVI stream is going to need lots and lots of space. DVI is a uncompressed digital signal... capable of 7.92Gb/s data transmission, you probably don't want to store this data, it will fill your hard disks so fast. Damn 7.92 GB/s? I want Wifi with those speeds!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 (edited) Damn 7.92 GB/s? I want Wifi with those speeds!!! Not now, may be in the next 10 years. But you could use 10Gbit Ethernet instead. Edited September 25, 2010 by Infiltrator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okiwan Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 (edited) maybe less then 10 years. look how long computers have been around and how fast its progressing. i still remember using big floppy drives on a C64. now i have a 1.5TB hard drive. i remember when i got my first GB hard drive it was like 25gb or something like that. an im like "25gb?!?! OMG ill never fill that up!!!" now i could fill that up in a day. think about all the kids now that never even had to look for porn on a dial up modem. i remember looking through the list of dial ups with local area codes so i didnt get charged an arm an a leg. thats untill i figured out how to get free long distance. ;) oh the good 'ol days. remember zip disks? lol that was a fail. omg forget war driving remember war dialing! Edited September 25, 2010 by okiwan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 maybe less then 10 years. look how long computers have been around and how fast its progressing. i still remember using big floppy drives on a C64. now i have a 1.5TB hard drive. i remember when i got my first GB hard drive it was like 25gb or something like that. an im like "25gb?!?! OMG ill never fill that up!!!" now i could fill that up in a day. think about all the kids now that never even had to look for porn on a dial up modem. i remember looking through the list of dial ups with local area codes so i didnt get charged an arm an a leg. thats untill i figured out how to get free long distance. ;) oh the good 'ol days. remember zip disks? lol that was a fail. omg forget war driving remember war dialing! May be you right less than 10 years. I remember the other day, I was browsing the Computerworld website and came across an article that talked about a new wireless chipset that supported transfer speeds of 400Mbps, it may not sound a lot but its definitely a big improvement in this area. I guess give it another few more years and we will hopefully have the first wireless standard that can support gigabits speeds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okiwan Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 ya there already designing quad core cell phones too. im excited for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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