You can now buy DVD players with a serial digital interface (SDI) port, and the movie industry is worried. SDI allows the transmition of a 270 megabits per second uncompressed digital signal, and is accepted by big fancy televisions (esp. plasma screens). Because it's a pure uncompressed digital signal, you can theoretically make straight digital copies of DVD movies--and it's perfectly within the DVD-CCA DVD player manufacturing license. The license forbids Firewire ports (which would do something similar), but makes no mention of SDI. Yet another example of how the DVD-CCA's restrictions that hurt the consumer in the name of copy protection are in vain.