Sony leads the charge to disable analog outputs

[Patrick]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... ontrol.ars

Basically analog connections (including component) would be disabled on set top boxes and DVD players. Very disturbing stuff.

[MattKingUSA]

That's good, as long as they start selling converters for like $100.00 Just kidding. But this should be an issue with a converter really. I just think that we should consolidate and have all 15 pin VGA outputs as HDMI.

[eddie]

If they mess up my equipment, so that I can not use what I paid for, Sony is going to have a Texas size fight on it's hands. They must have forgotten about Hiroshima. I do know those boxes are programmable. There are people already hacking them. After the drm crap they put on pc's without people's knowledge, I would not put anything past those "expletive deleted". There are a lot of us who can not afford all the new crap.