HDCP or not??

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The HDMI port on my HP w2408h recently broke, and I was very annoyed because I thought this would mean I would be unable to watch BluRays anymore. I was under the impression that a BluRay would not play back unless HDCP was present on the connection.

However, films play back fine when using the VGA connection.

I did some reading on this, and it seems that HDCP does not nuke your film; it just downscales the resolution to 900px or so. However, I'm not sure it does as the video still seems very high quality.

Is this correct, and is there any way I can get around HDCP? I've tried running AnyDVD but it doesn't seem to do anything.

Either way, I can't tell if HDCP is doing anything or not!

Using Corel WinDVD 9 under W7 64-bit, with an LG GGC-H20L.

Any ideas?
 
Well we can't tell you how to get around it, because that's illegal. But it is annoying when things which could technically still work don't because some movie companies decided to make more money.
 
There's a flag that can be set on the disc to limit the resolution over analog connections. Currently the studios are not setting it so you're getting the full resolution over VGA.
 
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