Excellent. HDCP will be a requirement soon enough, users will need to have it in their HD TV system ( the preferred situation for most vendors is both PVR and TV actually ) .. if you are HDCP equipped, you wont even know its there. If you do not have it, then some streams will stop video...
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.
“The other one is a biggie, and it's something very noticeable in the videos: touch sensitivity is pretty bad. Using the virtual keyboard proved to be far too painful, and we're pretty sure it wasn't multitouch-friendly.”
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Excellent. HDCP will be a requirement soon enough, users will need to have it in their HD TV system ( the preferred situation for most vendors is both PVR and TV actually ) .. if you are HDCP equipped, you wont even know its there. If you do not have it, then some streams will stop video...
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.