So, if one has AnyDVD could one watch blue-ray on a PC without having ot
have all of this "stuff" (other than that $100 blue-ray player that
someone posted)?
Brian Weeden wrote:
Like I said, *legally* you need HDCP to view Blu-Rays :)
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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.
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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.
