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  • initialism High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection

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  • 显示装置:如果您使用数位视觉化介面 (DVI) 或高画质多媒体介面 (HDMI) 连线至数位输出,请确定显示装置符合高频宽数位内容保护 (HDCP) 标準,且 VGA 支援 HDCP。

    VeryCD - 电驴资源订阅 king6420 2010

  • Equally annoying: HDCP is only supposed to apply to 'high-value' digital streams, meaning standard-def purchases and rentals on the iTunes store should be out of scope ... but some reports indicate that both the HD and SD instances are flagged, blocking playback on anything but the laptop's internal display or a straight-thru HDMI connection.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • But with HDMI and its Siamese twin HDCP, you get more than mere proprietary technology -- these technologies are under license from a body that claims to prevent copying by ensuring that no one makes a competitive compatible device.

    - Boing Boing 2006

  • Princeton prof Ed Felten (whose work with Alex Halderman on the Sony DRM mess was nothing short of genius) has begun a new series unpicking the failings in HDCP, a crippleware system for home video that is being built into next-gen PCs, game-consoles and home-theater equipment.

    Boing Boing: April 9, 2006 - April 15, 2006 Archives 2006

  • The built in HDCP chips 'labels had been removed, so that it was impossible to find out where they came from.

    Boing Boing: July 3, 2005 - July 9, 2005 Archives 2005

  • As someone just said, HDCP is not just a dumb DRM scheme, but also a dumb implementation of it.

    Broadcast Flag on steroids 2005

  • Niels Fergusen is a cryptographer who has found serious vulnerabilities in HDCP, an Intel-developed protocol for copy-protecting broadband video transmissions -- something that the entire film industry intends on depending on to protect their inventory of video.

    Boing Boing: August 26, 2001 - September 1, 2001 Archives 2001

  • And Thunderbolt will provide audio along with video and support a "digital rights management" standard called HDCP short for "High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection".

    Faster Forward: Is Thunderbolt ready to rumble at home? 2011

  • And Thunderbolt will provide audio along with video and support a "digital rights management" standard called HDCP short for "High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection".

    Is Thunderbolt ready to rumble at home? 2011

  • Hollywood argued (PDF) that by allowing signals to be sent only via the HDMI outputs — which include a digital anti-copying technology called HDCP — movie studios would be able to offer customers first-run, on-demand movies much closer to, or the same day as, their release in theaters.

    FCC lets movie studios turn off component-video connections for new movies 2010

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