Ohiosnowbird
Senior Member
So we hit one the other night - new to us. We’ve never had a problem with mirroring content on our iPad to our tv via HDMI until the other night. We were trying to stream Amazon Prime movie and got the message “unable to play the video because your device is not HDCP compliant”. Upon some research, this is now part of any new device you buy, including HDMI cables. Your provider may or may not include this as part of what they stream, in this case Amazon is enforcing it. Another way I’m not allowed to use Prime, in the country you don’t really get 2 or 3 day delivery, so I feel like watching a movie every now and then gets me my monthly $prime worth…
Anyway.
HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) is a form of Digital Rights Management (DRM). DRM protocols are designed to protect content creators and distributors against piracy.
Here’s the best article I read explaining it: https://www.howtogeek.com/208917/htg-explains-how-hdcp-breaks-your-hdtv-and-how-to-fix-it/
First sentence
HDCP is an anti-piracy protocol built right into the HDMI cable standard, but it doesn't actually work very well, and breaks the viewing experience.
The splitter they recommend is currently unavailable so I am digging around to find another. Anyone got a recommendation? iPad to TV. We don’t have wifi, just hotspot. Verizon cellular iPad.
Anyway.
HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) is a form of Digital Rights Management (DRM). DRM protocols are designed to protect content creators and distributors against piracy.
Here’s the best article I read explaining it: https://www.howtogeek.com/208917/htg-explains-how-hdcp-breaks-your-hdtv-and-how-to-fix-it/
First sentence
HDCP is an anti-piracy protocol built right into the HDMI cable standard, but it doesn't actually work very well, and breaks the viewing experience.
The splitter they recommend is currently unavailable so I am digging around to find another. Anyone got a recommendation? iPad to TV. We don’t have wifi, just hotspot. Verizon cellular iPad.