|From the signs coming from both HD disc formats, down-rezzing may not be up to the disc publisher, but mandated by the disc licsense.
Look up AACS/ ICT
AACS is the CP/DRM used by both BR & HD - DVD, Image Constraint Token (ICT) is a flag that can be set to down rez the pic or not. ICT was passed not long ago into the specs.
So instead of a system that has 8 sources of video and 8 zones to display that video in, you will be forced to get 8 BD/HDDVD players, 8 HD cable/sat boxes, and put them in each zone, and not be able to have any global features like Kaliedascape, ReQuest, or other servers. Kind of sucks, eh?
that is not right. ICT only counts for decompressed video (i.e. from player to TV) In a server/player environment what is important will be managed copy. It gives a server the ability to copy a disk to the HDD, if the DRM used is acceptable to AACS and has AACS accreditation. Also ACCS has a policy that at least one copy must be allowed from all disks. So this will make Kaliedascape easier and less prone to legal attacks
