Friday, June 02, 2006

Do ALL HDMI have HDCP?

When I started this blog I didn't know how much work it took to keep it relevant and complete enough for people. Now there are people asking `Do ALL HDMI connectors have HDCP support'? The short answer is NO. To be sure, it should state HDMI(HDCP) if it DOES support HDCP.

HDMI Licensing, LLC, the licensor for all HDMI partners, does not require HDCP compliance as mandatory for all their licensees. That being said, HDMI licensees get a discount for putting HDCP on their HDMI connectors:

http://www.hdmi.org/about/faq.asp

If the Adopter implements HDCP content protection as set forth in the HDMI
Specification, then the royalty rate is further reduced by one cent (US $.01)
per unit sold, for a lowest rate of four cents (.04) per unit. Adopters must
license HDCP separately from Digital Content Protection, LLC, an Intel
subsidiary.

The Wiki states:

... nearly all HDMI connections support HDCP ...

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