19.11.2008 10:50 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

A new polemic: HDCP and the new portables

An online user at Arstechnica has just opened a new polemic related to the new Apple portables. The Mac user wanted to view a film bought from iTunes Store on his video projector connected on new MacBook via mini Displayport adapter to VGA. He had a bad surprise with error message below. iTunes refused to launch the film, since the projector did not support the HDCP standard. By extrapolation, this implies that it will not be possible to use an external Apple monitor (except certainly the 24" LED) and all VGA peripherals to see, at least some, films distributed by iTunes. But these things need to clarified. We believe that it is essential that Apple adopts this standard. One day it will be needed to support the Blu-ray reader. However in thi

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