So a little under a month ago I began my journey in massively upgrading on my old prebuilt acer system, I started with this monitor My basket at Overclockers UK:
Forgive the long in the tooth intro, but here is my problem, once I finally got everything up and running with the final piece being the gtx1060 which I installed recently I decided to see just what 4k video looks like, so I downloading a test video, which frankly I was blown away with, even with the massive download size so I went all in and upgraded my netflix subscription to the UHD premium package and expected to have a similar experience with their extensive library and made sure I had what I thought was all the multitude of hoops netflix makes you jump through just to watch a bloody video, I even fired up microsoft edge(wtf!), but then I thought I was ready. Until... It seemed to look identical to what I had already been watching so I manually checked both the current stream quality, and even forced the autoselect for downloading at 2160p and after hours of searching and even the Samsung site itself is as clear as mud on this, this brand new 300quid plus monitor isn't even HDCP2.2 compliant even though my GPU is, and the rest of my system and internet connection is clearly far in excess of the required specs for 4k streaming.
setting aside the fact even googling the serial number keeps returning entries of the U28E590D, I want to know if there is anyway around this that doesn't involve selling myself on a street corner to fork out yet more money to replace a perfectly good monitor because Netflix is being monumentally boneheaded when it comes to nobbling their own service to customers who are paying for a 4k stream and only being allowed to have 1080p which means semi computer literate people like myself are pushed towards going through other means to download content which defeats the purpose of requiring this HDCP ******** in the first place, as we all know people who are deadset on pirating content can, and have circumvented this very easily already, leaving people such as me up a creek.
Given that at the time of buying I assumed it was up to date with things like that, while admittedly I hadn't even known what HDCP was at the time and certainly never considered it an issue when buying what I thought was a decent, if low end 4k monitor, obviously I have been using it for a month so can't really return it and aside from the netflix issue As I said earlier I am very happy with it, but any other suggestions on how I can fix this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Total: £341.09 (includes shipping: £11.10)
as It looked a decent deal and on the whole I am very happy with it, especially when compared to my previous 7 year old, 24'' 1080p monitor, and I also went the rest of the way with building my first rig from scratch, I even made a thread on it as well which helped me a lot given my extreme lack of experience, I had a lot of fun building it, made a couple of errors which I learned from and rectified, nothing major really, just little things, like installing power connectors before the heatsink because of the tight clearance once in the case, things like that, all in all I enjoyed doing it massively and learned more than I ever have watching hours of LTT, BitWit, Pauls Hardware, Jayztwo...you get the idea. Looking back I would have changed a couple of parts, namely 'downgraded' to an i5-8600k and maybe the cooler, not because of its performance, just because of its size in my case which is restricting my fan upgrades which I plan on doing soon, again not deal breakers but things you only really learn from experience once yo have the parts in front of you. Anyways...Forgive the long in the tooth intro, but here is my problem, once I finally got everything up and running with the final piece being the gtx1060 which I installed recently I decided to see just what 4k video looks like, so I downloading a test video, which frankly I was blown away with, even with the massive download size so I went all in and upgraded my netflix subscription to the UHD premium package and expected to have a similar experience with their extensive library and made sure I had what I thought was all the multitude of hoops netflix makes you jump through just to watch a bloody video, I even fired up microsoft edge(wtf!), but then I thought I was ready. Until... It seemed to look identical to what I had already been watching so I manually checked both the current stream quality, and even forced the autoselect for downloading at 2160p and after hours of searching and even the Samsung site itself is as clear as mud on this, this brand new 300quid plus monitor isn't even HDCP2.2 compliant even though my GPU is, and the rest of my system and internet connection is clearly far in excess of the required specs for 4k streaming.
setting aside the fact even googling the serial number keeps returning entries of the U28E590D, I want to know if there is anyway around this that doesn't involve selling myself on a street corner to fork out yet more money to replace a perfectly good monitor because Netflix is being monumentally boneheaded when it comes to nobbling their own service to customers who are paying for a 4k stream and only being allowed to have 1080p which means semi computer literate people like myself are pushed towards going through other means to download content which defeats the purpose of requiring this HDCP ******** in the first place, as we all know people who are deadset on pirating content can, and have circumvented this very easily already, leaving people such as me up a creek.
Given that at the time of buying I assumed it was up to date with things like that, while admittedly I hadn't even known what HDCP was at the time and certainly never considered it an issue when buying what I thought was a decent, if low end 4k monitor, obviously I have been using it for a month so can't really return it and aside from the netflix issue As I said earlier I am very happy with it, but any other suggestions on how I can fix this problem would be greatly appreciated.
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and I completely agree with the comments about driving people to acquire elsewhere - 4K playback on PC via legal services is a mess and rarely works at the best of times meaning you need a TV and another device - total mick taking situation.