High-def ‘down-converting’ forced

[Shadowself]

Originally Posted by phloyd

It has to affect people with analogue only displays.

Or those of us that have a few year old monitor with DVI (without HDCP) and component.

My intent was to wait until this all shakes out to buy a replacement with all the bells and whistles, but start building my Blu-ray library this year.

With this restriction it makes no senseto me to convert to Blu-ray until I get a new monitor.

Originally Posted by phloyd

With the choice of titles, I am going to have to pick and choose - people with analogue connections will choose titles that look good over titles that look like SD. They have DVD's for that.

I agree. For me it means waiting on Blu-ray... unless there are many that don't support this stupid "protection" method.

Originally Posted by phloyd

Still - some people think that hooking up the cable box via RF channel 3 to their new 60" HDTV is HD, so you never know

You mean it's not???? ;-)