Re: [dvd-discuss] 4 Studios to Issue Films in a High-End Video Format

[Sham Gardner <mail(at)risctaker.inka.de>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:30:40PM -0800, Seth David Schoen wrote:
> Ernest Miller writes:
> 
> > Does anybody know anything about the digital rights management scheme used?
> [in SVHS decks]
> 
> For various reasons, I'm pretty confident that it is HDCP (5C).
> 
> I don't know anything about whether HDCP or CPRM is built into the
> SVHS format itself or only these particular manufacturers' products.

Ernest's post doesn't mention SVHS, that's an analogue format and certainly
doesn't have CPRM built into it. The format in question here is supposedly
digital.


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