Is the C-Series HDCP compliant?

[mark hackett]

Is the C-Series HDCP compliant?

[Oleksandr Yurchenko · Accepted solution]

Hi Mark

Currently this is not supported.

http://developer.tandberg.com/web/guest/forum/-/message_boards/message/27919/maximized

br. Oleksandr

[Jens Didriksen · Accepted solution]

It is HDCP compliant - that's why you can't send copyright protected content to the far end, since this is not allowed under the HDCP standard. This is becoming a real problem for us in the higher education sector.

/jens

[Michael Boscia]

Jens, maybe you can answer a dumb question.

Can you plug a box in-line that doesn't understand the standard, basically to scrub the protocol from the flow?

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[Jens Didriksen]

Ah, well, that would be illegal - however, you could use DVI instead, if at all possible, or, you could possibly convert HDMI to VGA between the source and the codec, there are boxes which will do that, downside is the image quality will be degraded quite a bit. However, I don't know how it would handle HDCP content though, if it would even convert this, as we have never tried it, but I seriously doubt it would.

We are kind of getting around it by not using DVD/Blueray players, but playing these on PCs instead, which allows us to use DVI. It's not a great solution, but it works, at least for now.

I know Cisco is still working on getting HDMI compliance changed, hopefully this will happen sooner rather than later as it'll otherwise eventually make life rather difficult for us - and everybody else working in higher education sector for that matter.

Stupid thing is, stripping HDCP encryption is quick and simple to do, if you do it disc by disc, so, in reality, it's not like HDCP is achieving much; and the software is readily available on the interwebs.

/jens

[Justin Ferello]

Jens,

I am not sure Cisco can do anything about HDCP.  If I uderstand correctly, the current HDCP bylaws do not allow HDCP content to be transmitted via the internet or any long haul lines.  The best Cisco could do is display content locally, but not transmit it.  However this would create confusion as people would hit presentation and see it locally but the far end would get a blue or black screen.

Justin

[Jens Didriksen]

Yeah, that's correct, but I believe it's those bylaws Cisco is trying to get amended, injected with a bit of common sense if you will. Won't be holding my breath though.

/jens