Get your DRM infection wirelessly

THE FOLKS OVER AT Tzero have gotten themselves all in a tizz, since they are the first bods to be given permission by the almighty to transmit protected HD content wirelessly.

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? µ