DRM that downscales BlueRays

Hi:
  I recently ran into an interesting and annoying form of DRM. It forces Blue Rays to run at 480i(SD)instead of there native resolution.(eg. 1080i) when component cables are used.(since they don't sport copy protection). This is part of "Advanced Access Content System", a spec that has been around since the Blue Ray players creation. Any BlueRay disk can have a flag on it that forces the player to downscale the image -- YUCK! It has not been used until a couple years ago. Up until then it was felt that there where to many people using component cables.(so USEING the DRM would hurt to many people)

 Recently this has been applied to new(2011+) BlueRay players since Component is no longer a problem. Don't worry though people will not get confused as most of these new players will only come with HDMI.(the signal will be encrypted off course)

 VGA on the PC(which also does not support encryption) is also not supported.

 Why do I bring this up? I have a newer model PS3 and it's effected by this. Fyi this does not effect anything but BlueRays and DVDs(oddly they are effected by the spec too), PS3 games work fine and are in HD.

One last interesting point is the target they are trying to stop! Well, it's impractical to run a pirating business by capturing a Blue-Ray movie with a capture card since it would take to long(you would have to watch the whole movie). They are going after people who want to use a capture card as an easy way to backup their movie collection. I disagree with DRM and that is a discussion for another day but like most DRM, this makes me scratch my head and ask, is it worth it?