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HD-DVD’s Secret Weapon? HD-DVD Standard on Toshiba Laptops Come 2008, And Why It Probably Won’t Matter

Started by Devindra Hardawar · 10 months ago

This article over at The Inquirer (as always, in their delightfully Yankee-indecipherable prose) makes the case that Toshiba’s recent announcement to include HD-DVD drives in their laptops spells trouble for Blu-ray. As I’ve written recently, the HD-DVD platform is in ... Continue reading »

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  • dave

    1 year ago

    This part of the article is funny: "it’s possible to configure your laptop to output to an HDTV, the process isn’t entirely foolproof". This will be totally hit or miss, with people having significant problems or getting crappy output because of MPAA's requirements for copy protection, which require end to end encryption of all the content, for you to get hi-definition content on your TV. Sure Vista's got all this fun code in it, but it's also the video chips that need to specifically support this functionality, including HDCP over DVI, as well as the TV itself also supporting HDCP over DVI or HDMI. And fun compatibility problems with HDMI.
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  • Devindra

    1 year ago

    I should have been clearer, as it's quite obvious right now that you will need a fairly new laptop with HDCP compliant video outputs to output HD-DVD or Blu-ray content to your TV. We still don't know what Toshiba has planned with these new laptops though, and it would be fairly stupid of them to include HD-DVD playback and no easy way for people to get that content to their TV...

    If they really wanted to impress us though, they could get the digital audio outputted through the HDMI as well and fix both setup issues at once.
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