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Apple disables playback on 'non-compliant' monitors

tuaw.com — Cory Doctrow: 'Buying an Apple computer? Get ready to throw away your monitor, over and over again. New Apple hardware is shipping with "HDCP" anti-copying technology that prevents showing some video on "non-compliant" monitors. Best part: the list of "compliant" monitors will change over time: the monitor you buy today can be "revoked" tomorrow'.

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  • redgiemental, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1You do that the same HDCP technology is present in Vista and will be in all future editions of Windows as well right?

    It's also effectively a requirement for Blu ray playback so it had to be incorporated at some point by Apple. Not a whole lot of choice on their part.

    Just the direction the entire industry is headed in (unfortunately).

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