Bypassing HDCP 2.2

[Minarva]

Hi everyone, hope you've had a good Crimbo!

I bought my dad an amazon fire TV for Christmas to go with his 4k monitor (BenQ 3201pt), which was listed as HDCP compliant on the manufacturer page. I should have checked further, because it seems that this is in fact only compliant to HDCP 1.4 (admittedly this was not really an area I was well researched on until now, and definitely not in the documentation which simply says HDCP - "Yes"). Thus the fire TV is currently a bit pointless as it is stuck playing at 1080p which he could do before anyway.

Upon looking around, a lot of solutions seem quite expensive and/or not really sold here in the UK. I was wondering what converters etc everyone uses in their setups to allow HDCP 2.2 content to play on a 1.4 device? I've seen one by Neet going for about £70 which I will get for him all else fails, but would like to save a bit more money if possible (especially as the fire TV was about that price..). Cheers in advance!

 

[Minarva]

I thought so too, but at least directly messaged Neet about one of theirs and they claimed theirs didn't (although I remain unsure that they aren't just trying to push their double price product...). However, any sort of splitter or converter would be fine if it was known to deal with the hdcp, I'm just trying to find one sold in the UK (ideally without spending so much) - if no luck I'll just fork out the £70 and end the problem for sure.

 

[Minarva]

Only 1080p though? Op wants 4k doesn't he, hence needing it to bypass HDCP 2.2?

Yeah that's the case unfortunately, which has far less information out there about what does and doesn't work. I've also seen the Triax 310054 for £50 which I guess will do the same job as the Neet for a bit less, so unless someone knows of any splitters that will do the job at 4k I guess that's the best bet?

 

[Minarva]

I think russ9898's post above aptly demonstrates that my challenge wasnt entirely unreasonable. No need to get weepy.

Regardless, I know that they work. I was asking not about this, but if anyone knew of a device that would do it for less than £70 in the Neet case on the website mentioned earlier or less than £50 for the Triax that I've seen elsewhere (or if the £20 premium would be worth it for some reason as reviews basically don't exist). In the US there are numerous devices for around $30 so figured that I might be missing something. Seems fairly clear so far that nothing will beat the £50, which is a shame as the actual device wasn't significantly more, but hey .