What…did they think this was going to be uncrackable???
http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Took_Eight_Days_to_Crack_HD_DVD/551-78152-581.html
It was bound to happen, but 8 days 
that is amazing 
cool dude!!!
NICE!!
Stick it to the man!
It took me like…2 seconds max…I just stepped on it and it cracked right in half…Is it really that surprising? 8 days is a long time…The guy trying to crack it must have been totally retarded.
So when are you releasing your videos on HD-DVD?
I don’t understand what they mean by “cracking it”.
What exactly did he do?
I’m actually thinking about not bothering to
not sure if you’re serious or not…
anyway…the copy protection on HD-DVDs wouldn’t let you copy the data on the disc to your computer, or play it at full quality on certain components.
so, he found a way to rip the data off the disc. he “cracked” the DRM (digital rights management) scheme.
No, I was actually serious. This is what I thought it was, but I didn’t know if it was something fancier. Thanks.
Funny…I posted that before opening up my new 22" monitor
I completely take that back.
(futureshop boxing week sale knocks $100 of the $499 price tag…$cdn). Not HD (1920x1080), but 1600x1050 at fullscreen res is absolutely beautiful.
DVD clips (720x480) are sooooooo tiny on the screen!!
I had been filming in HD the whole time, but the only time I actually saw it in HD was at your parents’ place. Seeing some on the comp and the big monitor put a smile on my face that hasn’t yet come off…
(the price jump in monitors having 1600x1050 to monitors having 1920x1080+) just couldn’t be justified…)
And I know that wasn’t 1080p… I think it’s 1366 x 768. If we actually got it to work on my computer monitor, it would’ve been 1080p.
it’s only filmed in 1080i…a monitor can’t ‘fix’ that can it??
The monitor can’t, but software can deinterlace (though not perfectly). A 1080p monitor can display 1080i natively. Same resolution, just interlaced (every other line updated in each field, instead of all lines in each frame). I still don’t get why they included interlacing in the hdtv spec, or why many of the major tv stations broadcast that instead of 1080p@30fps.
From what I’ve readd, first gen devices played either 720p, or 1080i
1080i is better for image clarity, 720p is better for fast action sports type things (which unicycling is not) perhaps 1080p would be ideal for everything
I’m looking at the (almost) HD version of the Memphis NAUCC movie I put on DVD, and am completely dumbfounded at how clear even the tinyest details are! (I haven’t filmed any weddings in HD yet but some of my buddies have had to blur out the leg hair stubble on some of the brides!!)
I am so technologically inept…i have no clue what you’re talking about.
DVD…720 lines down the screen, 480 across. so…720x480
this is much clearer than broadcast TV which is at 640x480.
i is for interlaced, p for progressive.
i has each image using two frames, so at 29.97 frames per second (a frame would be like one cell in a walt disney cartoon) an interlaced movie needs two frames to make one frame. the first having every even horizontal line, the second having every odd horizontal line. (but because it’s a frame later than the first, all the odd lines are 1/29.97 of a second later than the first. (not distinguishable by the human eye in most cases, but not as good as progressive (p) (the full 1080 horizontal lines in every frame.)
so because HD is 1920x1080 it is 4 times bigger (therefore more detail, much clearer) than DVD of 720x480
make any more sense?
yeah…a little, thanks!
1080i. I totally don’t know what that means but I want it.