Corrections for Alex Grundner on AACS

re: Corrections for Alex Grundner on AACS

chrisl — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:54:00 GMT

Rebuttal to Alexander Grundner's "Incorrect Corrections" on AACS
http://msmvps.com/chrisl/archive/2005/11/13/75319.aspx

Rebuttal posted on eHomeUpgrade

chrisl — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 10:07:00 GMT

I posted a rebuttal to your "corrections." You can read it here: http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/1634/rebuttal_to_chris

Assumptions on non-public information = incorrect?

chrisl — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:26:00 GMT

Like you said in the opening: "Alexander Grundner has more incorrect assumptions on AACS and other content protection systems." When all details become public, then there will be no reason to make assumptions -- even Marcus Matthias, Project Manager at Microsoft, was hesitant to disclose too much about AACS (and other technologies) at this point. So, stating that I'm incorrect is a mute point when all the facts haven't been made publicly available. Can you point us all to the URLs where we can confirm your claims?

re: Corrections for Alex Grundner on AACS

chrisl — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:49:00 GMT

I havn't heard of any restrictions, other than needed an Internet connection.

Transcoding will be a seemless in the next 4-6 months. The user will not even know that the content is being transcoding! It doesn't need to be transcoding to any Microsoft formats, it can be MPEG-2 or MPEG-4. In the case of Extenders, MPEG-2 and WMV9 are supported and both of which are also DLNA compliant! Using WMV9 will be smarter to allow for better network transportion.

re: Corrections for Alex Grundner on AACS

chrisl — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 18:51:00 GMT

There is still no information on how managed copy will really work. There have been many rumors that a managed copy will block to your from skipping or fast forwarding content just like the current content locks that modern DVD players are respecting... oh and it means you have back up the studies crap segments and adds along with the actual content. If true this will devalue the whole thing tremendously and will all still end up ripping are movies to some more usable and less cumbersome standard. The IP holders to date have not exactly shown themselves visionaries on this type of issue and tend to do the wrong things to try and force unwarranted and annoying control *coughSonycough*.

To Gregs point, dose MS really believe any one is going to re-encode hundreds of movies into the so so MS format just so they can work on exstender... rather then go on the war path that is. It's just plain cooperate blindness that is going to cause a huge unnecessary fiasco and a ton of negative xbox 360 publicity just because they want to force a standard nobody cares about instead of ponying up a for MPEG4/divx/xvid compliance. Ridiculous.

re: Corrections for Alex Grundner on AACS

chrisl — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:57:00 GMT

You can stream this blog or Microsoft Presspass and find that Managed Copies will be a feature of every HD DVD sold. WMRM will likely (no public information released, sorry) allow streaming from that point. You can take a look at the AACS website for more information and specific information will be released in a few months.

Windows Media Rights Management for Network Devices will enable (legally) streaming current DVD's (CSS, not AACS) through the home to other devices.

re: Corrections for Alex Grundner on AACS

chrisl — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:36:00 GMT

Quote: “Sure, managed copies as function is enabled, but that doesn't guarantee consumer will be able to make a backup recording or even be able to stream the video to extenders if the distributor doesn't allow it – the ball is truly in their court.”

I do tend to side with the quote here. While you express that this is possible with HD DVD, it is lost that the market is not filled with HD DVD! I own 450 DVD movies and none of them are HD DVD. Yes through applications I can copy them to a sever and play them on the Media Center, but not the Extender, unless I go through a lengthy reencode process.
So my question is, what is being done to facilitate the thousands of users who have a existing DVD collection they would like to have made available on media centers as well as Extenders? After all this is truely "Media Everywhere".
And one last thing. I may have missed it, but has it actually been said that we will be able to back up a HD DVD and then stream it to other Media Centers as well as extenders in our home?