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> This is why HDCP enforcement may be the dumbest legal-technical mandate ever. Indeed. Because of HDCP common use cases like splitting, converting or sending
by mrandish 2y ago
> This is why HDCP enforcement may be the dumbest legal-technical mandate ever.
Indeed. Because of HDCP common use cases like splitting, converting or sending a video signal are unsupported or afterthoughts by most consumer devices, even when dealing with non-protected signals. Of course, the HDCP flag can be removed by some shady devices but these are not commonly available and are often poorly documented.
- tonyarkles 2y agoHeh, my wife and I were just talking about this the other day. She does live audio production for work but occasionally has to deal with video. Active HDMI splitters are one of the few cases where cheaper is often better because the cheap Chinese ones will usually do HDCP stripping and something sane with the EDID data, compared to more expensive ones that actually follow the spec.
- pjc50 2y agoI'm a great believer in cheap Chinese technology actually having more features, since the days of region-free DVD players.
- userbinator 2y agoHDCP strippers are very commonly available from the East. Of course they aren't called "HDCP strippers", but ever since the master key was leaked/cracked, many anonymous devices with HDMI inputs will strip HDCP.