A girl I know wrote gullible on the ceiling of her school. She kept telling people that the word was written on the ceiling - Charlie Demerjian
HD content, encoded with the HDCP DRM infection, requires a digitally protected transmission path from end to end - a protected disc, player, cable and output device. It makes it notoriously difficult to play HD content at the resolution it was intended - even, in some cases, on hardware that 'should' work.
Now it will be possible to get more physical flexibility, if not content-rights flexibility, through Tzero's new ZeroWire technology. It's a wireless transmission system, encrypted of course, which replaces the HDMI cable as the transmission stage between player and output device (aka TV).
Tzero says that firms including Audiovox and Siemens will be launching devices using the technology, now that it has "Approved Retransmission Technology" status from the powers that be in Hollywood.
Of course, the alternative is not to fuel the fire of the great DRM machine and just get your HD content elsewhere. Why bother jumping through the hoops? ยต