Why won't my HD content play in iTunes anymore?

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Why won't my HD content play in iTunes anymore?

Why has all my HD content stopped working in iTunes? It says my monitors are not HDCP compliant so can't play back HD. It always worked fine in the past and I have a load of HD video that I bought on iTunes that I can't even open anymore, yet the system is quite happy to sell me more. I am running dual 23" Apple Cinema HD displays via a GTX285 graphics card. What's going on? Has Apple snuck some 'buy a new machine' ware in through an update and just not given a s**t about their customers?

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance,

Dominic

Mac Pro 6 Core 3.33GHz + MacBook Pro 2.2 GHz iBook G4 800Mhz, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 2x 23" ACD, GTX285 GPU, MXO1, 8TB Quadra RAID

Posted on May 25, 2011 2:25 AM

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RamzaMik

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May 29, 2011 1:13 PM in response to Dominic Witherow

Apple cinema display 23'' arent HDCP complient...sold in <2003 if im right.

Youre Gpu card is, and its the one that is sending HDCP signal to the ACD23.

HD movies in iTunes are touched by the HDCP security and this is why you got f0ck***

Try to play the movies thru youre ibook plug into the ACD, it should works.

Or you could get a crappy Gpu like the 7300gt (macpro2006) I think isnt HDCP and hook the screen to this card when playing HD content that are HDCP (cpu will handle up to 1080p even on a 7300gt)

Intel are to blame. I think HDCP IS A SCAM . Not Apple...they are obligged to provide their store HDMOVIES in HDCP .

Plug any blueray drive or anything playing HDCP, same result.

HDCP SECURITY: source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection

regards

Mikael

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Answer 2

May 30, 2011 12:53 PM in response to RamzaMik

Thank you very much Mikael, for your very helpful response. I got a load of HD content last year, when I was still on my trusty G5 Powermac (using the same screens - 2005 model). Everything worked fine but I'm now on a macpro and my HD content has been disabled - what progress!!! At least I now know what's happened - it truly *****!!!!!! What really annoys me is that the iTunes store still lets me buy content that my my machine can't play - that's just wrong, as I now find out that it's supposed to disable the purchasing of protected content if the computer doesn't support it!

Anyway, at least I can play it on my MBP!

Thanks again,

Dominic

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