If you want 4K every device in the chain will need to be HDCP 2.2 enabled. If it's not native 4K content, I guess it might not be needed. Hopefully this helps.
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For a 55 inch 4K Samsung TV on Amazon can be sold for about $3500. 4K means that it is in ultra HD, which is amazingly good, making it quite expensive.
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It's hard to find the exact date. The consumer market appeared to start getting traction in 2012 with TV's. There were 4K projectors/cameras out in 2003/2004. 4K came out in camera's in 2003, by around 2010 major video streaming companies were pushing 4K out as an option. Decent article (below) to get quick easy to read info on the current TV's for the average consumer. revealreview.com/5-tips-choosing-4k-tv/ Hope this helps!
HDCP is a method to encrypt the video and audio travelling on an AV cable (as for example the HDMI or DVI cable that connects your PC to the monitor or your Bluray player to your TV). This is done to prevent you from using the HDMI or DVI outputs of your computer (or bluray player), to copy the audio and video of a movie, by plugging the HDMI cable to the HDMI input of a recorder (yes, there are recorders with HDMI inputs, but they cannot record signals encrypted with HDCP). In plain english, HDCP prevents you from "lifting" the audio and video of an HD movie from the cable. The Hollywood studios mandate that both your playback device (aka computer or bluray player) and your monitor (aka PC monitor or TV) must support HDCP in order to be able to view Bluray-Movie content (and subscription HD satellite/cableTV channels too). On a practical level, any device with an HDMI plug supports HDCP*. But only some DVI devices support HDCP. If both your playback device and your monitor support HDCP, just forget about HDCP. If your are using a PC, just get a software Bluray player like WinDVD (sorry, no free ones exist) and start watching movies. If you are using a bluray player, just put the disc in and start watching, lol. If your playback device or monitor doesn't have HDCP, then the movie will either not play or play downscaled to standard definition (aka DVD quality). This is bad. One solution is to use a piece of software called AnyDVD HD that will convert a protected Bluray-Movie to an unprotected one like the ones you can make at home (it acts as an intemediate between the Bluray drive and the software player). HDCP is required only for protected Blurays, hence you have effectively dodged HDCP. Otherwise you can use the component output of your playback device, which mysteriously allows FullHD playback without HDCP (HDCP is not possible on component).
As far as I know HDMI does have some form of support for 4K, but don't expect eery piece of hardware to be run perfectly with such (if anything, the setup you describe will probably be bottlenecked at 1080p if it doesn't complain about resolution formats).
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Yes and yes. "dvi-d with hdcp" Here is my understanding of it all. First dvi-d means digital signal only. hdcp (HD) means High-definition (CP) means copy protected i.e. you can't record the signal. As for the other part of the question. Is it able to be viewed like a tv and do you need to subscribe to hd with your cable provider?" Yes but, you have to have a cable box with a DVI output connector. Or some newer DVD players have dvi output. You didn't say what the name of your cable service is so i don't know if you have to subscribe (pay that is ) for HDTV or not. I'm on Cox cable and get HDTV for free.
Yes. Sony, Sharp, LG, and some others make them.
By normal TVs, I assume you mean regular resolution TVs. Blu-Ray players require High Definition output, and that means you need to play Blu-Ray movies on HD capable television sets.Even on my DIGISTOR external Blu-Ray drive, I still need a computer monitor that is HD/HDCP capable, so that I can watch Blu-Ray movies on my computer system.
You may not be able to get it to work through your receiver due to the HDMI HDCP copy protection feature. The Starchoice tuners have to be set up to allow the display on your brand of TV and Receiver. If your brand of receiver isn't supported as an HDCP-compliant device, then you won't see a picture. You'll have to connect directly to the TV and run a coaxial or optical digital cable to the receiver for the audio.
To watch a commercial Bluray disc in high definition, an HD television is needed with HDCP capability. Some older HD televisions do not have the copy protection system and many Bluray players will not operate with them. Almost all Bluray players have an analog, standard definition output that can be connected to televisions that are not HD or do not have HDCP compliant inputs. There are also a number of converters that claim to output a VGA signal from an HDMI input and are HDCP compliant as well. Some appear to work very well and deliver an HD output on a standard VGA connector. Extracting HDMI signals to a non-protected format is against the wishes of the HDMI founders and these devices are rarely approved by the HDMI organization. That being the case, there is no guarantee that they will work or continue to work in the future. HDCP is a restrictive data encryption introduced only for the benefit of content owners. It in no way helps the consumer but it does, as in this case, prevent the replay of content if consumer equipment fails to comply. It is great shame that legitimate users are forced to find ways to circumvent the protection having already paid for the right to view the disc.