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by jordigh 2851 days ago
Wait, what? There's DRM in HDMI?

Bloody hell!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content...

Stop protecting bytes from being copied!

2 comments

Which of course is added complexity and a source of incompatibility between playback devices and screens. Can't count the number of times in the early years of HDMI that I couldn't play a DVD because my projector didn't support it.

On the other hand, the pirated copy still worked great.

HDCP my dude. Take a jog up history