Component vs. HDMI - by gunsmoke
Matthew on 27/4/2011 at 18:08
To be fair, they weren't
high expectations.
Quote Posted by Sulphur
smug sense of superiority
You've got Gravatars switched on, haven't you?
lost_soul on 27/4/2011 at 18:11
Because of the average uneducated, lazy, overweight person that inhabits this corporate craphole, I cannot purchase a reasonably powerful graphics card or monitor any longer without having blatantly malicious features forced upon me. This makes me angry.
So, I don't "get off" on telling people about these things. I do however have a devilish grin and squeal with joy whenever one of these systems fails or backfires and it ends up affecting the honest consumer. They deserve it.
Now that you mention it though, I do see the error in my ways. If seeing people getting ripped off by DRM makes me happy, I should just be quiet and not warn anyone about systems like HDCP. The less people know about the DRM, the more people will be negatively affected if/when the system fails.
Aja on 27/4/2011 at 18:22
I have faith that if things get out of hand the hackers will take care of it. No need to worry at present, anyway.
Matthew on 27/4/2011 at 18:26
Well, they already reverse-engineered an HDCP key once before, so it's certainly possible again.
lost_soul on 27/4/2011 at 18:26
Last I heard, somebody already leaked the master keys a wile ago.
june gloom on 27/4/2011 at 18:33
Quote Posted by lost_soul
Because of the average uneducated, lazy, overweight person that inhabits this corporate craphole, I cannot purchase a reasonably powerful graphics card or monitor any longer without having blatantly malicious features forced upon me. This makes me angry.
So, I don't "get off" on telling people about these things. I do however have a devilish grin and squeal with joy whenever one of these systems fails or backfires and it ends up affecting the honest consumer. They deserve it.
Now that you mention it though, I do see the error in my ways. If seeing people getting ripped off by DRM makes me happy, I should just be quiet and not warn anyone about systems like HDCP. The less people know about the DRM, the more people will be negatively affected if/when the system fails.
Here's the thing:
WE ALREADY KNOWI mean, not even just from your (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127094&p=2049304&viewfull=1#post2049304) incessant parroting of the same tired phrases, many of the issues you bring up every five minutes have been concerns for many people before you even got here. We're tired of hearing about it, especially from you, because the true fact of the matter is, we've all bought things that no longer work 10 years down the road. That's just one of the risks you have to take as a consumer. If you don't like it, then you don't have to buy anything, but you don't have to tell everyone else not to buy it either, because they will if they want to, and crying incessantly about how evil corporations are trying to kill you just makes everyone hate you for the one-note whiner that you are.
Sulphur on 27/4/2011 at 19:04
What dethtoll said, lost_soul, you thick, insufferably dense munchkin.
That part that's in red, bold, and 42 pt. wide? Pay attention to that part. I know it's hard, but it's just one line so do try to remember: we don't need to be educated by you.
@Matt: Actually, I haven't had gravatars switched on since about a year and a half ago. Does his look like a purple cacodemon receiving head or something? (I think that's what mine looks like in the first place :/)
CCCToad on 27/4/2011 at 19:53
Quote Posted by Sulphur
lost_soul, question: do you get off by thinking you're smarter than the rest of us because we don't know what you do? Does your smug sense of superiority hinder you from typing two posts in succession, because you're too busy cleaning up after ejaculating over the keyboard from the intense gratification it gives you to post your obnoxiously phrased tirades in some misguided effort to edify the likes of us?
Don't answer that; it's rhetorical. I'd rather you grew up, or failing that, fucked right off instead.
I'd guess a yes, but his own smugness pales in comparison to what several other TTLG denizens exhibit. Its still pretty entertaining to read a rant worthy of Cave Johnson.
Lost Soul, the problem isn't what you're saying, but how you're saying it. There's nothing wrong with giving people a heads up or pointing something thats easy to forget. However, if you call people things like (literal examples) "an ignorant cockmunch" , or "uneducated, lazy, and overweight", or "retarded fucktards", you just alienate yourself from everyone else to the point where people stop listening to you.
This is a social skill you should have learned by the time you entered Kindergarten, but if you demean and browbeat people while making a point nobody's going to give two shits about what you actually said because they're too pissed off to care.
Phatose on 27/4/2011 at 20:37
Strangely enough, lost_soul's point may actually be relevant here, and not just bitching for the sake of bitching.
Netflix through the 360 apparently requires that digital connections support HDCP. From what I gather, if you try to play a Netflix-HD stream through a digital connection on your 360, and your monitor doesn't support HDCP it will not play at all. It's probably only relevant if you're talking about a very early HDTV or an old PC monitor hooked up through DVI, but it is there.
Of course, in a move that could only be called an epic WTF, Netflix will happily stream HD movies over an unprotected analog connection at full resolution, totally defeating even the theoretical rationale for HDCP.
That's assuming I'm understanding everything properly. If someone knows better, please correct me.
In the end though, I'm still of the opinion that the primary factor in deciding the connection is going to end up being cable management. Component will put out just a good a signal as HDMI, but it requires at least 3 cables. HDMI requires one, and might be able to replace the audio hookups too. Makes it a lot easier to set up if you ever need to move it.
