Trail
February 9th, 2009, 01:55 PM
Greetings,
I am interested in buying a new 27' TV/Monitor (http://www.e-shop.gr/show_per.phtml?id=PER.169353), mostly for the monitor aspect (and watching movies through the PC (linux)).
What worries me a little is the HDCP aspect of the story. After a couple of hours of reading the web, my understanding is that the picture denial/degradation is always originating from the transmitter (namely my PC). So if the source is sending unencrypted signal, the monitor shouldn't reject the input and display it normally. Is that correct?
All i want to do is use the monitor normally as a standard desktop monitor, without all that HDCP crap. There's no chance in hell I'll ever buy a 'premium content' movie or whatever, since i'm against it, so playing such things does not interest me one bit.
Could anyone more knowledgeable than me confirm that a HDCP-compliant monitor does not *require* encrypted streams but merely accepts them? It should display a Xorg 1920x1080 desktop without problems, right?
I am interested in buying a new 27' TV/Monitor (http://www.e-shop.gr/show_per.phtml?id=PER.169353), mostly for the monitor aspect (and watching movies through the PC (linux)).
What worries me a little is the HDCP aspect of the story. After a couple of hours of reading the web, my understanding is that the picture denial/degradation is always originating from the transmitter (namely my PC). So if the source is sending unencrypted signal, the monitor shouldn't reject the input and display it normally. Is that correct?
All i want to do is use the monitor normally as a standard desktop monitor, without all that HDCP crap. There's no chance in hell I'll ever buy a 'premium content' movie or whatever, since i'm against it, so playing such things does not interest me one bit.
Could anyone more knowledgeable than me confirm that a HDCP-compliant monitor does not *require* encrypted streams but merely accepts them? It should display a Xorg 1920x1080 desktop without problems, right?