Talk:High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection/Archive 2005

Analog hole?
"HDCP bans analog outputs from compliant products, presumably in an attempt to reduce the size of the analog hole in HDCP devices." Does this refer to a device that might try to accept an HDCP signal and convert it to analog, or does this mean that a device that produces an HDCP signal cannot also provide analog output? This needs to be clearer. HD-DirecTiVos, at least, have both component and HDMI outputs. Is this in violation of HDCP (but within the FCC ruling), or is this okay by the HDCP Spec? - Bitt 17:58, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The sample license agreement states in section 3.4 that no analog outputs are allowed except for those that limit their quality as defined in section 3.3 of the agreement. Obviously a screen itself is by some definitaions an analog output, I believe the restriction is on output jacks however - not screens. So the device should be designed to make it difficult and lossy to extract analog copies of digital content. For example an HDCP monitor would not have a component video output so screens could be chained together. - April 8, 2005

Due to a court ruling that the FCC surpased their madate in requiring the broadcast flag, the flag will not be mandatory on July 1st 2005. I believe this means the requirement to implement HDCP is no longer part of US law, but I not sure enough of this to include it in the article. - June 19, 2005

HDCP will ultimately promote pirating
With windows vista having HD out, all current computer monitors will not be able to support HDCP. Furthurmore, since the HDCP standard is not backwards compatible, they device you buy today will be useless tomorrow.

For example if you buy a new 3000 DLP HD tv, you will probably not be able to buy a blue-ray HD-DVD next year because the HDCP version will be newer than your TV. And I garantee DVD manufacturers are not going to start making multiple HDCP version of their products.

When they told me that I could not watch any of my original bought DVD's thru the analogue component. Why bother ever buying another movie again, I'll just rent them for 3 Bucks and make prfect 1:1 copies with my DL DVD-RW. -- 00:05, December 19, 2005 66.36.151.222