AACS Licensing Begins
One of the largest hurdles to the introduction of BD and HD DVD has been DRM. Who’d have guessed it? 
But yeah, Hollywood has to cripple everything it sees, and it’s doing so this time around with AACS. But thankfully, AACS has finally started licensing their gunk, so that Toshiba can start selling the HD DVD players soon, and Sony doesn’t have another excuse not to release the PS3.
Licensing of “AACS (Advanced Access Content System),” a content protection standard to be used for play-only package media of next generation optical discs such as “Blu-ray Disc” and “HD DVD,” will finally start. A license management group “Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator (AACS LA)” has unveiled “AACS Interim Adopter Agreement” that describes the agreement within the group. In the wake of this announcement, AACS licensing will officially start shortly.
The license from the license management group AACS LA will provide device manufacturers with IDs and encryption keys to be assigned to their devices.
Tech-On! - AACS Licensing Begins - Next Generation Optical Discs Finally Ready for Launch
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February 21st, 2006 at 9:44 am
[…] Sony notes that it is waiting “waiting for the final specifications on some of the technology it is using in the PS3, such as that related to the Blu-ray drive and to input and output video and sound.” Well, if you read my HDBlog, you know that AACS is now a go for Blu-ray and HD DVD players, so that’s not a problem for the PS3 anymore. As well, Sony seems to have a handle on 1080p HDMI stuff now that they have a projector that accepts it (the Sony VPL-VW100 SXRD projector). So I don’t know what else they’re waiting for. But then, it’s not like I have an inside line or anything, so… […]