Thanks to its Intel Insider tech, Best Buy's CinemaNow has now added 1080p HD films to its digital download catalog.
The films will be from Warner Bros. and Fox.
Intel Insider "is a hardware-based security technology in second-generation Intel Core processors, which is the fastest-shipping Intel product with more than 75 million units shipped to date," says THR.
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Wow... Yay... Hooray... Who the hell is CinemaNow? Until this article I had no clue that BestBuy was a partner & was even more clueless that Intel had anything video related on their cpu dies (if I'm even getting that spelling correct, again).
And so long as I'm still guessing, this caca-capade also sounds like just another DRM solution to piss off movie viewers? Just another means so the big bad pi-pies don't steal their movies? Good luck with that one too. How long did this bit of tech take to make? 4,5+ years or so to make? It'll take that many weeks or so for the hackers to usurp it & it'll be business as usual... morons.
Sun Tzu - (utterly, brutally, chopped up) You will NEVER control nature. Humans, despite their tendency to deny it, are part of nature, thus you will NEVER control them. Therefore, control the situation in nature in which you find yourself.
Originally posted by Mr-Movies: Both Intel and AMD have video embedded in some of their processors now.
You're definitely right. I knew about AMD some time ago, but felt their technology was somehow bent in the direction of something like the CUDA processing attributes (I know their not compatible, just making a bumbling juxtaposition here) in hopes for some kind of processing boost. Then after reading their white papers my cerebellum fused about 8 pages in, I pissed my pants & woke up in intensive care some 3 days later with no recall of what the hell I was reading.
I "guess" these processors will be 'better' for proprietary cheap computers without expansion video cards; with the added bonus of DRM built in for Netnuts, BlockBusted & whatever else bloatware that comes preloaded on those systems, but is going to be like low/no sodium soup to the rest of system builders in the real world. We're going to pay top dollar to make damned sure that this technology ISN'T in there. IF indeed such a processor on either side of the cpu war is to exist.
Since a lot of the mainboards carry a video chip on them I really don't see the need to have them embedded in the processor even if they want to use some kind of hardware DRM. I know what you mean about white papers the only thing worst is the BS you get from quarterly reports.
Just think of all the money wasted in DRM that most of the time just get circumvented anyway, and we pay for it.
