The Dark Side of HDCP - Why is My PS3 Blinking? 233
FloatsomNJetsom writes "High Definition Content Protection is supposed to make sure you're not playing pirated content, but sometimes your devices screw up the HDCP 'handshake' (over an HDMI cable) and nothing works. This happens with some regularity with the PS3, and Popular Mechanics investigated and found a quick and dirty workaround. From the article: 'We then checked with Leslie Chard, president of HDMI Licensing, which owns the rights to the standard, who told us that HDCP is one component of HDMI that has been plagued with interoperability issues. HDCP (high-bandwidth digital content protection) is designed to prevent the interception of data — specifically copyrighted Hollywood movies — between an output component and a display. As Steve Balough, the president of Digital Content Protection, the licensing company for HDCP explains, the two pieces of hardware must exchange a key, a sort of certificate of authenticity unique to each individual device, to verify a secure connection.' The problem isn't limited to the PS3 — many HDTV cable boxes and have the same problem. The fix there? Unplugging the power cable."
I refuse to believe this. (Score:5, Funny)
*gasp* Who'd have guessed?
You want to have your movies and play them too?! (Score:5, Funny)
dyslexia (Score:2, Funny)
Re:why so onerous, technology? (Score:3, Funny)
I think you misspelled "fuck." If you're going to curse, do it properly!
Summary correction (Score:5, Funny)
NES, or "blinking toaster" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:why so onerous, technology? (Score:5, Funny)
No, "Fork them". As in, take a fork and repeatedly stab it into a sensitive portion of their anatomy.
Re:dyslexia (Score:5, Funny)
Next Week on "24" (Score:4, Funny)
"Yes, the terrorists have a mole in CTU. It can only be
WARNING YOUR HDTV IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH HDCP!!
"... Paris Hilton. Tonight, on NEWS at 11"
Re:The Dark Side? (Score:5, Funny)
There is no dark side of the HDCP really, matter of fact, it's all dark....
*thump*thump.....*thump*thump.....*thump*thump.... .*thump*thump.....
--with apologies to Old Pink
Re:why so onerous, technology? (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't the logical and absurd conclusion of that going to be a smallish curvy box (with several hundred listed features that aren't yet enabled) with a single button on it, that when pressed will do nothing...and it might actually fail to do that right? The one greatest achievement however, is that it'll be really tough for pirates to duplicate the remarkable ability for the device to do absolutely nothing. As a real twist, once it is cracked by the pirates, it'll perform better than the consumer version by far...even though it still doesn't do anything.
Hmm, add a couple another button, a video screen, and that somebody will put linux on it someday, and it's a Zune!
Re:dyslexia (Score:3, Funny)
Re:why so onerous, technology? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:why so onerous, technology? (Score:5, Funny)
If everyone who reads it knows what was meant, what is the harm?
Don't be a rectal orifice.
Re:why so onerous, technology? (Score:5, Funny)
I'd rather not Fork DRM.
Re:why so onerous, technology? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:why so onerous, technology? (Score:2, Funny)
I have a newer player that plays more than one CD at a time.
Currently I'm listening to "Hell Yes" by Beck in my left ear, and "Come in out of the rain" by George Clinton in my right ear.
Re:why so onerous, technology? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:why so onerous, technology? (Score:5, Funny)
It seems that a Frenchman, an Englishman and an American were captured by cannibals. The chief explained that they were going to be killed, skinned, eaten and that a canoe would be made from their tanned hides. BUT they could have one last wish.
So the Frenchman wanted a last cigarette. As soon as he was done with it, they killed him, they skinned him, they cooked him and ate him and they made a canoe from his hide.
The Englishman wanted a last cuppa tea. As soon as he was done with it, they killed him, they skinned him, they cooked him and ate him and they made a canoe from his hide.
Then they camne to the American. "I want a fork," he said.
Incredulous, they asked "A fork? Like you eat with?"
"Yes, a fork," he insisted. So they brought him a fork.
As soon as he received the fork, he started wildly stabbing himself all over his body.
"Canoe?" he shouted, "Here's your fucking canoe!"