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In Reply to: RE: HDCP capable LCD TV posted by 4season on September 05, 2007 at 08:58:18
>>HDCP is copy protection for HDMI connections, and it's use is optional and controlled by the source material. IIRC, neither Blu-Ray or HD DVD movies actually utilize it at this time<<
It's mandatory, and it's in use for both Blu Ray and HD DVD players. It's a digital connection protocol, and it's not limited to HDMI - it's implemented for DVI as well. If you try to plug a Blu Ray or HD DVD player's HDMI out into a device that doesn't support HDCP, such as a computer monitor with a DVI port, you won't get a picture.
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Is there a way to know without connecting? I'm in Singapore and Bluray/HDDVD are not yet easily available! The stores I am checking do not have such players to test. Will the picture be completely disabled or will it be scaled down? Will the player's menus, etc (when not playing a disc) show?
Pretty much any consumer TV with HDMI is HDCP compliant, and most of the older consumer TVs with DVI are HDCP compliant as well. I don't think you need to worry, unless you're buying something that's more than five or six years old.
If the TV does not support HDCP, you will not get a picture (not even player setup menu) over the digital connection.
Thanks, I'm buying a new one from a store. But only a very few explicitly mention HDCP and so I was concerned, especially since I am considering a product from a relatively unknown brand.
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