Category: Graphics & display

  • First Sony HD-DVD: Already late!

    Sony was preparing a worldwide launch of its first High Definition DVDs (on Blu-Ray discs) for the 23rd of May. They decided to move it into the future. For a good reason: “The majority of our retail base and hardware partners have requested that we reconsider this date to better coincide with the first commercially…

  • HDCP/HDMI security: virus comes to HD TV

    HDCP/HDMI security: virus comes to HD TV

    As we are interested into the HDCP/HDMI technology that the manufacturers are preparing for a wide distribution, we start finding a few amazing facts. We had seen previously that HDCP was a technology doomed to fail in front of the attacks by the media pirates, but there is already worse (for the legal users).

  • HDCP/HDMI broken, or nearly broken

    HDCP/HDMI broken, or nearly broken

    The technology supposed to protect the equipments aimed at digital TV with a semi-secret protocol using techniques borrowed from the military in order to ensure that only approved devices can see the previous digital data of our movies, seems to be on its way to be broken and is already the target of very serious…