LMAO ! Premium content protection for HD DVD broken already 1

[Michael A. Terrell]

VideoCipher II Over a decade

Wrong. Its over two decades. It was in use wide in CATV headends
before I left the industry in April, 1986. United Video was involved in
the first round oh HBO's scrambling field tests. Our CATV system was
also the corporate repair center, so I was the one who installed the
test unit and made it work. (SN 16)

There was a list of receivers that would work, but most of ours
weren't on the list, and we weren't about to replace over 200 working
receivers, company wide. I modified all the "Unusable" Collins-Rockwell
gear to work by removing and bypassing a low pass filter right after the
video demod.

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Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[MassiveProng]

Wrong. Its over two decades. It was in use wide in CATV headends
before I left the industry in April, 1986. United Video was involved in
the first round oh HBO's scrambling field tests. Our CATV system was
also the corporate repair center, so I was the one who installed the
test unit and made it work. (SN 16)

There was a list of receivers that would work, but most of ours
weren't on the list, and we weren't about to replace over 200 working
receivers, company wide. I modified all the "Unusable" Collins-Rockwell
gear to work by removing and bypassing a low pass filter right after the
video demod.

Cool. "Over a decade" isn't exactly "wrong" though. Beyond two
decades is still well over a decade. :-]

 

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Apparently provoked by being unable to watch the HD DVD he'd bought because he
didn't have a 'compliant' monitor 'muslix64' decided to hack it.

He may have had help, too. Check out how close his story is to that
of another user, also in Gutmann's "Cost Analysis of Windows Vista
Content Protection":
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

"Roger Strong reports from Canada that "I've just had my first
experience with HD content being blocked. I purchased an HP Media
Center PC with a built-in HD DVD player, together with a 24" 'high
definition' 1920 x 1200 HP flat panel display (HP LP2465). They even
included an HD movie, 'The Bourne Supremacy'. Sure enough, the movie
won't play because while the video card supports HDCP content
protection, the monitor doesn't. (It plays if I connect an old 14" VGA
CRT using a DVI-to-VGA connector)" (The reference to Canada has since
been removed; it's available on mirrors of the site.)

A search on the web shows that this upset customer is also a
programmer and was also locked out of his paid-for content shortly
before Gutmann's paper was published. He then talked to Gutmann, a
noted expert on security techniques and systems who has been studying
the content protection system in Windows Vista. BackupHDDVD was
posted about a week later.