ATI covering their not-quite-HDCP-ready tracks?

Remember the HDCP fiasco that we were talking about the other day? You know, how ATI and NVIDIA claim their chips are HDCP ready, but since the graphics boards don't support the standard, there's no way you're getting HDCP? Well it's still just as lame sounding as the other day, but it looks like ATI decided they'd do a little cover up. They've started to remove references to HDCP readiness in their online product spec sheets, while it's still clear from retailer information and cached versions of the pages that they once proclaimed "HDCP ready" loud and proud. No telling how this will all go down, and we can't pretend to hope that ATI will be shipping us all boxes of "I'm sorry" cookies along with new HDCP graphics cards, but we would like some answers. And some cookies.

[Via Slashdot, thanks Cassidy]

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 17th 2006 1:55PM]

Lawsuit....Class action Lawsuit...

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 17th 2006 2:10PM]

Seriously.... who has time to find this stuff. Thank god for the unemployed.

[Revrant Posted Feb 17th 2006 2:34PM]

Yet again, on levels of not giving a damn, I'm near bottoming out the minuses, who gives a holy flying feather duster? Lawsuit over a technology that barely finds usage? That'll fly, the card can do all of this just fine, dealing with the BS that is HDCP on the other hand, that's the hard part.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 17th 2006 2:43PM]

When will people learn that "ready" means "we could have included it, but we didn't"?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 17th 2006 2:48PM]

Its like a 30 second investigation google cache of the page etc.

You mean you don't read this and comment from work!;)

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 17th 2006 5:12PM]

To be fair to ATI, if the information was wrong, they should take it off their site. I'm not sure why you think this is a coverup and not simply a correction.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 17th 2006 6:06PM]

"I'm not sure why you think this is a coverup and not simply a correction."

Because they haven't issued an explanation, and are trying to do this quietly. You know, in a covered-up fashion.

Someday companies will learn that that doesn't work anymore. Then maybe we'll get the Feds to figure it out.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 17th 2006 6:12PM]

Just remember folks--When you buy a HDCP-ready card, you're supporting a consumer-malicious standard. The article above makes it sound like the fact that they DIDN'T support that standard deprives the user of a feature. That is, of course, incorrect, since HDCP is a DRM system designed to give users less rights than they enjoy now. Thus, whether they misrepresented themselves or not, they are still giving a consumer a less-crippled device.

Remember, the more we talk about HDCP as though it is a legitimate future, the more we make that future true.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 17th 2006 7:40PM]

What is HDCP anyway? Sorry for asking :)

[AlexL Posted Feb 17th 2006 8:15PM]

They put it back!

http://www.ati.com/products/RadeonX1900/specs.html

[Revrant Posted Feb 17th 2006 8:17PM]

Exactly my point MadaMada, though my version was far more simplistic by comparison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCP

So tell Paul, do you pimp yourself to hardcore anti-consumer DRM while Engadget pimps itself to the iPod Revolution every day of the week or just on Fridays?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 17th 2006 8:46PM]

But why do they first write it, then take it away just to put it back again. I don't understand.

[Revrant Posted Feb 17th 2006 9:52PM]

Negative feedback or a misunderstanding.

[scotty1024 Posted Feb 17th 2006 9:53PM]

I'll take an ATI X1900 HDCP ready card with a side order of class action lawsuit, to go please.

[Revrant Posted Feb 17th 2006 9:54PM]

Golly, if someone doesn't have their DRMed Anti-Consumer standards, they get grumpy. *Feeds some Rootkit* Use the bib.

[Dummy00001 Posted Feb 20th 2006 4:31AM]

...once proclaimed "HDCP ready" loud and proud.

I bet it was DRM-free HDCP. That was worth proclaiming. Both loud and proud.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 21st 2006 11:42AM]

Heh, reminds me of Ferris Bueller, when he changes his attendance records in the computer while Rooney's on the phone.

-- Elias