I'm building a few servers for a broadcast station, and we're trying to save a few thousand bucks by having consumer-grade playout as backup to our primary play-to-air servers. We have an HDMI to HD-SDI converter, but it does not accept HDCP protected content. I'm having difficulty finding a platform which has HDMI outputs but does not involve HDCP protection.
Is anyone aware of any vendors who offer such a solution? I'm looking for things that are on the consumer market and small-ish; something like what fit-pc would sell.
Update to avoid confusion:
The content that would be played out by these servers comes from distributors without HDCP encryption. The protection we place on content during broadcast is done later in the chain, in the encoding stages. Before we get to the encoding stage, however, we need baseband (HD-SDI) playout.
Is anyone aware of any vendors who offer such a solution? I'm looking for things that are on the consumer market and small-ish; something like what fit-pc would sell.
Update to avoid confusion:
The content that would be played out by these servers comes from distributors without HDCP encryption. The protection we place on content during broadcast is done later in the chain, in the encoding stages. Before we get to the encoding stage, however, we need baseband (HD-SDI) playout.
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