According to an AACS representative the studios WILL have to state on the cover if they use ICT for a release, so as phloyd stated you can just avoid these titles. Also, with the recent statements from various studios to not use ICT, I think the other studios will be forced to follow suit or get a lot of bad publicity.
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According to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Senior VP Don Eklund, none of Sony's Blu-ray releases for the "foreseeable future" will use ICT to force downsampling. "We have no plan to implement the Image Constraint Token. All of Sony's titles will come out of the analog output at full definition" Eklund noted that while Sony is obviously concerned about piracy, it sees analog signals as a relatively small concern.
Source: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060314-6377.html
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So far five studios supporting Blu-ray—Sony, MGM (the MGM library is owned by Sony), Fox, Disney, and Paramount—have agreed, at least for now, not to implement the ICT flag (Image Constraint Token is a flag in the software that instructs the player to downconvert the analog component output to a maximum resolution of 960x540). So those with older displays sporting only component inputs should see full high-definition on releases from these studios. The only major studio that has yet to commit to this non-ICT policy is Warner Brothers.
Source: http://www.ultimateavmag.com/news/032106sonylineshow/
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