What's better- DV I-HDCP orHDMI?

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I don't really understand the difference between these two
connections. First, is DVI-HDCP on thing or two, and is HDMI a more
recent connection that can deal with copy-protection better than the
other?

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True,

But HDMI includes license fee to a consortium and only single link.
DVI-HDCP is free from royalty (contributed by DDWG member) and dual
link (double bandwidth).

HDMI raw bit encode format is also different which makes it not
compatible.

Original argument for HDMI from the 7 companies was single cable
between source (player) and receiver (TV) and smaller form factor
(possible for portable CE device)

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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 04:20:45 GMT, "borromini" <asdf@asdf.com> wrote:

>"CGott" <curtgottler@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I don't really understand the difference between these two
>> connections. First, is DVI-HDCP on thing or two, and is HDMI a more
>> recent connection that can deal with copy-protection better than the
>> other?
>
>Yes, it's one thing. DVI is the connection type, HDCP is the copy
>protection scheme. If you're DVD player has DVI-HDCP then your display
>device (TV or Projector) will have to also support HDCP in order to display
>the signal. If you have an HDTV receiver with DVI then it will most likely
>also have HDCP. HDMI doesn't handle copy-protection any differently than
>DVI...it's the same HDCP. HDMI includes digital audio with the video,
>that's the only real difference other than a smaller form-factor.
>
>borromini
>