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Tech Acronym of the Day

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TPM (Trusted Platform Module): noun. A dedicated chip that performs cryptographic operations and cannot be inspected or tampered with unless you have frickin' sharks with electron-tunnelling microscopes attached to their heads.

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  • Anonymous
    March 13, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    March 13, 2007
    Anti-fanboy, perhaps I did not explain the interlaced / progressive issue well enough. PLAYBACK of filmed content at 30i or 30p is identical; this is what we are discussing. As I mentioned in my previous blog, RECORDING of content at 30i or 30p will give very different results (as you note), but that's not what we're talking about here. Movies are projected at 24fps and 30i can handle that with ZERO loss of fidelity. Anyway, this is all academic since HD DVD fully supports 1080p anyway; movies are encoded for 1080p and any PC player, the Xbox 360, and the newer Toshiba players all do 1080p over the correct connection.

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    March 13, 2007
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