Mac and HDCP woes

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Mac and HDCP woes

I have been trying to get HD movies I bought from apple to play on my projector via VGA. When I try to play all I get is a gray-box on my mac and the projector. When the projector is unplugged everything of course works fine. When I called apple support they said I needed to play the videos through VLC, that since the decryption key is already on my mac from Itunes VLC should be able to use it to display the content in HD over a non-hdcp connection. Have not been able to get VLC to do anything more then show a track seek bar when I try to play the files in VLC. Any suggestions on how to get this to work? I understand that this is an HDCP issue at heart but I am trying to get around it as suggested by apple support. Thanks, Daniel.

Macbook Pro 13", Mac OS X (10.6.2), Ipod Nano, Mini, Shuffle, and Touch

Posted on Dec 23, 2009 3:14 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 24, 2009 11:41 AM in response to firemandan900

This copy protection does make it impossible to watch content that has been legally purchased. No wonder people go out and steal content!

I spent money downloading a movie that I am also unable to watch. Apple really expects us to go out and spend lots of extra money buying special monitors? Really? They have got to be kidding!

There should be large and clear warnings on the iTunes store for all content that requires a special HDCP monitor to watch. No more scamming the public. Can you guess I'm angry?!

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Dec 25, 2009 6:42 AM in response to mwfanelli

Blame the content providers/owners not Apple. The iTS is just an outlet and they sell content per the requirements of the owners/providers of the content.

MJ

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firemandan900 Author

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Mar 6, 2010 8:24 PM in response to firemandan900

I think the VCL trick is only for copy protected music, running the content from windows 7 on my mac works fine..... This is an Apple fail and just another proof that DRM only hurts the people that are actually trying to do the right thing. Those that are easily acquiring stolen content do not have to worry about what device they can play it on, everything is 100% cross compatible with no bugs. Why should those of us paying for our content be suddenly forced to use HDCP?

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May 28, 2010 9:56 AM in response to firemandan900

I heartily suggest that anyone experiencing this issue submit feedback to Apple. There should at least be a warning that this content may not be playable on older displays.

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Jun 22, 2010 12:28 AM in response to Cetevaya Moish

How do you suggest we submit this feedback? The forums are riddled with stories like this, but DRM is becoming so common, not just in software but now in monitors and video cards as well. I can't playback tv shows or movies on my beautiful cinema display hooked up to a brand new macbook pro, with Apple's own adapter. This is totally ridiculous. The good people who are actually buying digital content are getting SCREWED, while the millions of people sharing tv and movies on the net have no trouble at all.

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