My fuzzy recollection is that the "analog hole" stuff was mostly pushed by Hollywood with respect to getting around encryption on DVD and streaming video (as op

My fuzzy recollection is that the "analog hole" stuff was mostly pushed by Hollywood with respect to getting around encryption on DVD and streaming video (as opposed to music, where similar encryption schemes were foiled in the market by CD and MP3 already being good enough, if not outright superior to the "modern" formats), and that with the advent of HD content they eventually settled for analog outputs being limited to SD resolution.