[mythtv-users] DVI, LCDs and HDCP

[Kyle Rose]

> So I asked a Samsung employee (they are consulting customers in big
> electronic retailers), and he told me what I did not want to hear,
> that the panel will only display something, if there is HDCP spoken
> on the DVI port. We both agreed on the fact that it does not really
> make sense in that direction, but we has not able to help me
> otherwise.

And this is the *real* danger of these DRM schemes: when they make it
impossible to implement a compatible system that doesn't even want to
access protected content.  Imagine what happens to independent
filmmakers and musicians when they can no longer burn discs that play
in everyone's player, or produce music files that play on a general
purpose computer that's been crippled by legislation only to play
protected content.

Yikes.

Kyle