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It is a bi-directional digital authentication key , so you may want to keep your component out cables handy if your monitor is not HDCP enabled in its DVI setup. Most new stuff has this though and it really wont matter much as a result, until you attempt to burn a DVD of HD content that has a no-copy key in it...

I want as much possible HD content as i can get, and if HDCP is needed to make hollywood happy enough to show me more, then its all good.

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#3: you and people like you are why congress and the RIAA and MPAA are allowed to kick everyone around. All digital: good. All DRM: very very bad.]]>Feb 2nd 2006 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/got-hdcp-you-might-need-it/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/got-hdcp-you-might-need-it/
BluRay Group, at the suggestion of AACS, has decided to let it up to the individual studios, and thus far only Warner Bros has stated that they will not allow HD over component. So with Blu-Ray and component on either a standalone player or Vista, some of your movies will allow the machine to pass HD over component, and some will not.

HD-DVD has announced that their standalone players will not allow HD over component, but will downscale the signal. It remains to be seen, however, if Windows Vista will fully implement this restriction. Why? Because folks with non-HDCP, component only monitors won't bother upgrading to either Vista or HD-DVD. They would gain no functionality (probably lose some), and thus would have no incentive to upgrade.

]]>Feb 2nd 2006 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/got-hdcp-you-might-need-it/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/got-hdcp-you-might-need-it/Brighter, more correct gamma correction, I'm sure. Same sharpness to the best that I can see.
DVI is key for the PC interface at that res, of course.
Good to know that I'll need HDCP for BlueRay and/or newer HD-capable video boards, though.
I think HiDef is far better on 24" monitors two feet away than on 40"-60" LCD TVs 4'-8' away. Plus your investment gives you awesome PC desktop space.]]>Feb 2nd 2006 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/got-hdcp-you-might-need-it/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/got-hdcp-you-might-need-it/
Movies protected with AACS will be downrezzed over component. It will be interesting to see if the same holds true for VGA.]]>Feb 2nd 2006 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/got-hdcp-you-might-need-it/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/got-hdcp-you-might-need-it/"I think HiDef is far better on 24" monitors two feet away than on 40"-60" LCD TVs 4'-8' away. Plus your investment gives you awesome PC desktop space."

True and interesting comment, Mitch. Most people ever gave thought of how 'sharp' their large screen HDTVs really are (or aren't). A SDTV with a 20" screen makes a vertical image about 12" with 480 lines of resolution. Keeping the same ratio, 480 x 2.25 = 1080.
12" x 2.25 = 27" vertical image or roughly a 55" HDTV.
In other words, a 55" 16:9 HDTV won't be any sharper than a 20" SDTV in any given area, again, this is as far as sharpness is concerned. But with a 55" TV people are more inclined to sit farther from it.

I like a large picture though. You can gather more friends around it.]]>Feb 3rd 2006 5:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/got-hdcp-you-might-need-it/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/got-hdcp-you-might-need-it/
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