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This was discussed previously in this borad.I hope I am not the only one.
Can someone explain how this will impact home listeners listening to SACD/DVD-Audio?
Will we have seperate formats for PCs and consumer units? Or will the new units support yet a new format?
- http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1568298,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532 (Open in New Window)
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Well I can see where this is going, the entertainment industry and the software industry want to retain full control of their product and would do anything to get permanent tangible hardcopies of their product out of the hands of the consumer. To do this they need a non-copyable high-res digital solution and this is a step up that ladderThey want to get away from the idea that audio, video or computer software is something that you buy once and own forever to use as many times as you want with no additional fees to something that you rent to use when you want but no longer own when you are not using it.
You would view or hear the product by buying a license which will permit you x amount of uses on a black-boxed receiver of some type. To do this they would need total microwave or broadband saturation so you could pull the product up on demand. It's not there yet but getting close. The days of collections are numbered I'm afraid, at least for mass market items.
Oldbassist, there is nothing in the Intel spec that supports any of your conclusions. In fact, DRM, encryption, and conditional access are not even mentioned.The spec is an attempt to standardize the way hi-res audio and multiple audio streams are handled on a PC at the driver and hardware level. Intel (and Microsoft) are feeling the competition from home theater audio and video systems, and don't want to be left out of the picture.
The previous poster asked for an explanation of the spec, and you responded with a diatribe of the "the entertainment industry versus the consumer'" which was full of half-baked opinions.
That wasn't very fair, was it?
Delete it if you want. It doesn't matter.
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