Hi Gav Ford wrote: > I was under the impression that HDCP was integral and compulsory with > HDMI hardware, if you can turn such nonsense off why would you ever turn > it on?
Because you're playing protected content. I have a PS3 and two monitors, one of which does HDCP and the other of which doesn't. Both play games and the single bluray movie I have. At some point in the future Sony and/or the content people can decide piracy is an issue and require HDCP displays for playback of content. At that point I will only be able to use one of the monitors for some stuff (or possibly everything). As I understand it, HDCP is generally required to be implemented now, but is not being widely enforced because at the moment pirating HD movies is expensive and very time consuming. Also (and possibly more importantly) because all of the people with HD equipment so far are early adopters and either have no HDCP or have an older revision of the standard. Annoying early adopters is never a good idea, since they evangelise your products extensively ;) Just because your TV/whatever says "HD Ready" doesn't mean it will actually be useful for anything HD in a few years time (also note that HDCP is unlikely to fully block content, it'll just require it to be rescaled down to a lower resolution). Cheers, -- Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canonical.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
