Macrovision inks deal to put ACP in AACS

by Richard Lawler, posted May 30th 2006 at 2:22PM

After at one point it seemed like Macrovision would be rendered irrelevant by AACS, they are now a part of it. Perhaps in a move to justify stalling the implementation of ICT, AACS LA will include Macrovision's analog content protection technology in their next update. This isn't that surprising as ICT or no, the analog hole is still a major concern for content providers, in fact Macrovision VP Adam Gervin predicted this back in 2004 (he also predicted that high definition DVD formats would be very slow to take off, DVDs had 5 years of growth left in them and that AACS would be cracked). Of course, one has to wonder how this will affect Toshiba's HD DVD player and PC Blu-ray drives that are already on the market.

Filed under: Misc, Sony, Toshiba

Tags: aacs, aacsla, acp, analog, analog hole, AnalogHole, blu-rau, digital, drm, hd dvd, HdDvd, hdtv, high definition, HighDefinition, ict, macrovision

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Mike S @ May 30th 2006 3:12PM

Will the macrovision be on the player or disc?

Current dvd players have the analog hole covered as you have to use a black box between a dvd player and a recorder to copy the analog signal. There will never be any devices made with component inputs (720p/1080i) for recording/capturing.

Has anyone tried connecting the Toshiba's S-video or composite video OUT to a DVD recorder yet?

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Brian Hoyt @ May 30th 2006 4:06PM

Why would someone waste the time to make a S-Video recording of a Hi-Def DVD disc. It would most likely be even worse than a DVD since even more downconverting on the fly by the player. Also I agree with the previous poster, I doubt there will ever be consumer level devices that can record uncompressed HD analog in. There are pro devices now, but at $1000 and the need for high end computers I don't see them catching on.

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WiFiSpy @ May 31st 2006 6:44AM

#1 , Older JVC W-VHS decks can record 1080i via component input. But the audio is recorded as 2ch only.

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David Kaspar @ May 31st 2006 8:19AM

How about HDV camcorders like Sony HDR-HC1/3?

They allow recording to HDV tape.

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Crosius @ May 31st 2006 1:46PM

The only side of the new deal ("Costs more, does less.") that the consumer can attack (if they don't want to boycott the content) is the "does less" part (ie. copy control). Make their relationship with the producer hostile enough and they will attack it.

The more different technologies the content-owners heap into media technologies to control reproduction, the larger the population of dissatisfied consumers will grow. Eventually, the population will reach a critical size, where both the dissatisfaction is great enough and the skill-set of the consumer population is broad enough to make cracking the protection an attractive and practical proposition.

By making their format less consumer friendly (macrovision, region locks), industry is increasing the pressure to break copy-protection, thereby hastening it's failure.

Good plan, guys.

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