Is there a way around Apple TV movie rentals that do not need HDCP for playback?
February 28, 2008 | Filed under Electronics, IPTV
We want to know if there is a way around Apple TV movie rentals that do not need HDCP for playback. Read this - Jeff Carlson from TidBITS has a report saying that he does not own a HDTV which is required for Apple TV and his Apple TV is connected to a Dell FPW2005 20-inch LCD display which he said is the same kind to his MacBook Pro at home and at the office.
Basically saying that the two main devices are connected together with a cable that has an HDMI plug on the end of it which plugs into the Apple TV and the other end on the cable has a DVI plug which plugs into his Dell monitor.
Well going on that report MacDailyNews has replied with and I will try and break this down in simple terms that connecting a monitor with the Dell logo with any Apple product is like grafting Ed Asner’s head onto Jessica Biel’s body. It’s unnatural. And disgusting. Yuck. Just say no to Dell. Now that is funny.
Carlson also said that he tried to watch the movie but the Apple TV displayed an error message which said ‘This content requires HDCP for playback.’
Well Carlson, High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is basically a form of digital rights digital rights management (DRM) that will prevent you from playing anything from a video player over HDMI connections and DVI if you do not have your own compatible hardware that will decode the signal properly.
So to put it in an easy to understand format, Apple TV movie rentals require HDCP for playback.
Answer this question for me “Is there a way around Apple TV movie rentals that do not need HDCP for playback?
Source – MacDailyNews via TidBits
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You could use the component output if your tv could accept that (Carlson’s couldn’t I guess).
I don’t know if a monitor input would accept a component-to-DVI as input but it might. There is some confusion (on my part, at least ) as to the analog parts of DVI - do they correspond to Red/Green/Blue or actual component tv signals? I’ve heard that Nvidia graphics chips can drive component displays from DVI outputs but I have not heard of the reverse.
You could get a VGA/Component cable. Not sure if ‘ATV component out’ to ‘monitor VGA in’ works universally, but it’s worth a try.