OT: Sony sues for DRM damages

baysidebas wrote on 7/12/2007, 10:49 AM

http://www.prosoundnews.com/publish/news/Sony_BMG_Sues_for_DRM_Damages.shtmlSony BMG Sues for DRM Damages[/link]
New York (July 12, 2007)--Amergence Technologies, formerly SunnComm International, and MediaMax Technology are being sued by Sony BMG for damages caused by Sony's ill-fated use of the companies' DRM schemes on various CDs in 2005. The multi-label media company is looking for $12 million for damages.

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p@mast3rs wrote on 7/12/2007, 10:55 AM

Sony's own fault for using them. Smartest thing Sony could do is move ahead and forget the bad PR it suffered.

On that note, Sony also announce a new PSP hardware that supports TVout. Too little too late I say.

richard-courtney wrote on 7/13/2007, 3:05 PM

Do you have a link .....

I wanted a PSP for presentations but no TVout without using an external
device that was a small camera that showed what was on the screen.

Steve Mann wrote on 7/13/2007, 9:11 PM

Use an iPod.

jrazz wrote on 7/13/2007, 9:52 PM

The link..

j razz

TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/13/2007, 9:59 PM

what res will the PSP play those movies at? 320x240 scaled up isn't the greatest.

RBartlett wrote on 7/15/2007, 3:31 PM

I believe that the PSP (UMD) format movies are already about double the resolution that the game machine's utilizes ie 720x480. So if the same is true for the games and onboard graphics chipset, then the TV-out could work very well for Sony in a "docked" mode.

The PSP's LCD is 480x272. The original PSP had various workarounds to get a video picture out to a TV. This then had a follow-up firmware upgrade from Sony that allowed the full resolution to be generated in this way. So the PSP itself is able to handle the full UMD data rate, decode and render to standard def.

No doubt with this output option, we'll see a lot more games being played and their players showing off their talents on youtube as a result. This seems like good news. It appears to be something that was removed from the original PSP at the last minute to reduce costs. Ironic that it now appears when Sony reduce costs further and make the whole package more attractive and compelling against the main Japanese competition.