Re: Re: More new Mac mini rumors...

[Jim Noble <yahoo-groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark McCall wrote:
>> How is this any different to HDMI having HDCP?
>>
> It's different because we've not had HDMI on a mini, or any other Mac
so
> far.  Problems like this already reported...
>

The Apple TV has HDMI (with HDCP), doesn't it?

> "When my friend John, a high school teacher, attempted to play
Hellboy 2 on
> his classroom's projector with a new aluminum MacBook over lunch, he
was
> denied by the error you see above. John's using a Mini
DisplayPort-to-VGA
> adapter, plugged into a Sanyo projector that is part of his room's
> Promethean system."
> http://bit.ly/NIEe
>

This would be no different with any other HDCP enabled connection - if
the source material requires HDCP, you'll only be able to watch it if
both player and display are HDCP enabled. If you don't have a HDCP
compliant output port (eg the DVI Mac minis), there is no question of
being able to watch the source material, even if the display is HDCP
compliant.  It just won't work. (Unless you have on of those widgets
that removes the HDCP, in which case it's not an issue...)

It's not he presence of a HDCP compliant connector that's the problem,
it's the requirement to have one in order to play back the material -
and the fault there lies at the feet of the studios...

Jim





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