OT: Sony allows Blu-Ray to work in analog

JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/17/2006, 4:41 AM

Someone at Sony finally came to their senses. According to this Sound and Vision Magazine article, Sony has decided NOT to use Image Constraint Token (ICT) to downsample the video output on analog HDTVs which would have prevented the older sets from using Blu-Ray at its best resolution. HORAY! Apparently, although Sony is concerned about the possibility of piracy, it is more troubled by the fact that thousands of analog HDTV owners without HDMI might think that Blu-Ray looks bad and opt for HD DVD. Finally someone who actually thought for a nano-second about how copy protection is screwing the customer! This is good news for Blu-Ray and HDTV.

~jr

Comments

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 3/17/2006, 5:24 AM

hazaa hazaa

Dave

farss wrote on 3/17/2006, 5:37 AM

JR,
I wish your conclusion that they were concerned about the customer getting screwed was correct.
Rather I think they finally managed to join two dots together, one labelled 'customer' and the other 'our bottom line'. If you think this was some form of straight line, I think not, based on how long its taken them to come to this. Rather I think the line runs around Uranus for several orbits and took about as long as a NASA probe to make the trip.

Bob.

Steve Mann wrote on 3/19/2006, 12:07 AM

"I think they finally managed to join two dots together, one labelled 'customer' and the other 'our bottom line'."

He is so fired.

John_Cline wrote on 3/19/2006, 7:55 AM

This is terrific news.

Jim H wrote on 3/19/2006, 8:50 AM

My WEGA may live on after all.