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: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Cc: hardware@hardwaregroup.com 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.
