Like I said, *legally* you need HDCP to view Blu-Rays :) --------------------------- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundtion.org> +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Neil Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well not really. > > The way HDCP is supposed to work is *if* the disk has the secure content > flag set to on then the player and the OS should verify that the complete > playback chain is HDCP compliant. This is to prevent you from being able > copy the digital decoded stream and doing bad things with it. > > There are a couple of flaws in this (shocking I know). > > The first is that the copy protection of both HD-DVD and BluRay has been > broken by AnyDVD. So you are free to rip and make copies regardless of the > HDCP chain. > > The second is that PowerDVD (arguably the best HD player out there) has a > nasty habit of enforcing the HDCP chain even if the title being played > doesn't require it. Which is pretty sucky if you ask me. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden > Sent: 29 November 2008 12:47 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] Blue-ray on pc? > > 1080p is essentially 1920 x 1080, a res that a lot of computer > monitors have been able to display for a long time. > > Of course, to legally play back Blu-rays on a pc you need both a video > card and monitor that support HDCP, which sucks. > > >
