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OUYA has HDCP protection enabled - confirmed

From Total OUYA: "HDCP copy protection is active on OUYA consoles, we can confirm.

"Having received our unit yesterday, our testing quickly found that without some method of defeating HDCP, our BlackMagic Intensity Pro capture card, was unable to receive a signal from the OUYA.

"We reached out to OUYA's PR and Twitter channels for confirmation, and the @OUYASupport account replied: "It is only on for protected content."

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Smashbro293983d ago

Idiots. Who doesn't have a way to strip HDCP without going analog these days?

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Why Monopolies In Gaming Must Not Be Allowed

As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.

thorstein6h ago

Shouldn't be allowed in any field.

Inverno2h ago

And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.

jwillj2k41h ago

Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.

MrCrimson1h ago

tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.

Zenzuu2h ago

Monopolies shouldn't be allowed regardless. Not just for gaming.

MrCrimson1h ago

They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -

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Honkai Star Rail's Revival Tendencies Take Away the Seriousness of Character Deaths

While many are fans of the Honkai Star Rail story so far, The Nerd Stash believes that the deaths of Robin and Firefly no longer carry much weight.

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Love and Deepspace Review - Hardcore Droid

Love and Deepspace aims to replicate real-life romantic tropes where players engage in a romantic journey, plus with an RPG combat elements.

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