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Hope this is the appropriate place to post this. I meant to do it yesterday but forgot.
So I'm going to watch the Ali Kahn/Danny Garcia fight live on HBO last Saturday night. The time comes and I flip to the station and instead of a picture I get a message telling me (essentially)that I cannot receive the broadcast because my receiver does not have HDCP (high def content protection) actively engaged. It also tells me how to navigate the system setup/installation/system info menus to verify this. Sure enough, I sail throught the steps and come to a screen which says (among other things) "HDCP off". Trouble is, there's no provision available to me via the remote to change the setting.
A quick call to Dish TV tech support and I am told by the rep that the reason I cannot recive this broadcast is because my sat receiver to tv connection is HDMI. If I were to switch to composite instead,the HDCP setting would automatically switch to "on" and I'd be in high cotton.
Incidentally, they rebroadcast the same fight the next day and I watched it unevenfully with the HDMI cable in place.
I've been with Dish TV since 1996 and had a suite of hi-def channels for at leats 10 years, watched a slew of previous fights (both pay per view and other) and never experienced this problem. Can anyone shed a little light?
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Does this even begin to make sense?
If you switch to "composite" you will NOT be able to receive High Def video.
WTF? Am I reading this wrong?
To John and others that may read this...a little faux pas on my part...the HD in HDCP actually stands for "high speed digital", not "high definition". Anyway, to restate, what I was told was that the feature known as HDCP (high speed digital content protection) had to be ENABLED on my receiver in order for me to be able to receive this broadcast and that by virtue of the fact that I connected my receiver to my TV with an HDMI link, this, ipso facto, DISABLES HDCP on my receiver. If, however, I would replace the HDMI with composite connection, then this would automatically ENABLE the HDCP feature on my receiver, thus making it possible to have viewed the broadcast.
What threw me off about the whole thing is that in the last decade I've watched literally dozens of similarly broadcast fights, both pay-per-view and otherwise, with nary an issue. So I'm trying to figure out what was different about this one particular broadcast and if anyone knows if the explanation given about HDMI connection being the culprit would seem to hold water.
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