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HDCP support on vid cards?

Mar 23rd, 2007

Hey everyone,

I just got my GeForce 7950GT KO in today, and I noticed it says HDCP Enabled. What is this?

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Re: HDCP support on vid cards?

Mar 23rd, 2007

It means that it supports the stupid "content protection" thing that's supposed to stop people from pirating content. Hard for the end-user though, and greatly limits choices.

(But it's actually good that the monitor supports it, because if it didn't, you would be unable to watch the copy-protected shows at all.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCP

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