Multimedia hard drive instead of VCR.

VCR was yesterday - today serve as a living room multimedia disks video archive. Faster, smaller, more versatile and they should be so easy to use as a DVD player. Their skills but differ vastly.
  A self-stretchable knitted sweater? Tickets for a concert? Ten to wash the dishes? Such gifts are becoming increasingly rare. Instead, technology is in vogue. On behalf of the Bitkom industry federation asked the opinion research institute Forsa 1000 German citizens according to their plans for Christmas gifts. The clear result: Nearly 40 percent of Germans want for Christmas computers, entertainment software, or buy.
High on the list are expected, apart from televisions and computer games, DVD players and recorders are available. However, rare multimedia disks. It was precisely this new category of consumer electronics lot to offer. With capacities of up to one terabyte (1000 gigabytes), they offer plenty of space for music, movies and videos.
Some video fan might like it, his DVD collection to the plate umzulagern. So are the favorite movies quickly retrieved ready, not one each time through the wall would have to dig shelf. The only problem: movies with copy protection can be, at least by legal means, not by the DVD to the hard drive.
But good multimedia disks can be much more. Playing music, for example. The necessary space to Zigtausende incorporated as MP3 CDs, they have all. Annoying is just that, through such huge media collections to be able to navigate, often must turn on the TV. But also there are already alternatives.
On the following pages: multimedia disks, the practical film, music and photo archives for the living room.
HDTV: High-SHORTCUTS WIRRWARRHDTVAACSHDCP HDMIDVIHDTV stands for High Definition Television. According to the manufacturers of consumer electronics will be the old TV standards like PAL (576 visible lines) and NTSC (USA, 480 lines) and replace with higher resolution and more stable image to make the home beautiful. HDTV content can be made with 720 lines in progressive-scan display method (720p), which means that each image is at each passage completely rebuilt. The alternative is called 1080i, has more lines to offer (namely 1080), but each of them alternately pass only every second will be redrawn (interlaced procedures, hence the 'i'). The Advanced Access Content System is a copy protection system, especially at the request of the film studios in Hollywood in all drives will be assembled, the HD content can play. We AACS is without any high-resolution films can play. Copies will be only with explicit permission of the author can be made that one, for example, could pick !
up online. Only in this way could also be a film about a Media Center or on mobile devices to stream. The originator but copies may also prohibit or require a fee. To AACS, there were long wrangling - because there are not many devices that the system is absolutely support it. An interim solution is the copy protection so toothless now begin to make - even on analog outputs will be even HD movies, although the studios prefer the issue to digital outputs would be limited, with a further protection called HDCP are. High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection is a kind of copy protection hardware. He also aims to prevent high-resolution material can be easily recorded. HDCP must be in the sending device, so the player or the graphics card, just as inserted in the receiver, so the monitor or TV. While TV, the "HD Ready" logo, HDCP capable, to have many monitors and graphics cards but not yet. An HDMI interface can also HDCP, a DVI interface does not notwendigerweise.Das High Defi!
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general interface of the future, for music, movies and even the connection between the computer and monitor. It is equipped with HDCP by default - an output device with HDMI interface and a TV with the "HD Ready" logo should work together so in any case, high-resolution movies represent können.Digital video interface - the first digital interface for video content, but It is already, of HDMI to be replaced. Some DVI outputs are also equipped with HDCP, others do not. Especially for many graphics cards missing copy of the hardware yet - leading to problems when playing copy-protected high definition movies might lead. ->