Although HDCP’s underlying encryption and protocols are sophisticated and outside the scope of this article, the basic premise of how it works is quite simple. There is a licensing body that issues licenses for HDCP devices. Each HDCP-compliant device, like your Blu-ray player or Xbox, has a license and the ability to talk to the receiving device on the other end of the HDMI cable.
The outputting device says “Hey display! Are you HDCP compliant? Here is my license, show me your license!” The display (or other HDCP compliant device) returns with “Why yes, I am legit! Here is my license!” When that process works, it happens within a thousandth of a second and you, the consumer, never even notice. You power on your Blu-ray player or DVR, it makes nice with your HDTV, and you live a happy life never knowing what HDCP even is.
Unfortunately, however, there are a host of situations where HDCP gets in the way of consumers doing perfectly legal things with their devices and content. If any device in the chain is not HDCP compliant, the video stream will fail.
For example, if you have an older HDTV set that is not HDCP compliant then you cannot watch any HDCP compliant content on it. If you plug in your HDCP-compliant device to a non-compliant device, you’ll either see a blank screen or an error message like “ERROR: NON-HDCP OUTPUT,” “HDCP unauthorised,” or simply “HDCP ERROR.”
That’s a good point. You’re right. When the power goes off at 5 the race should already be finished. It’s Monaco so a pretty quick race IF there’s no huge red flag delays.
The visit to dad was decent, he was very confused and kept blaming us for not taking him home, but the owner told us, this is part of the adjustment period, he is trying to manipulate us. But in all honesty, we cannot take him home, his anger outbursts are still very bad.
Just a pity some people in the family don’t want to hear it. We are organizing that a neuropsychologist will see him, so that we can get a full assesment of his status now.
Have those people seen him, communicated with him, experienced the visits that you guys have? Until they’ve regularly gone through weeks of these painful, difficult visits like you have, they have no place dictating how you, your brothers and your mom deal with things.
Ironically its my younger brother and his wife, but then again they are not used to this version of my dad, this manipulation that he does and has done to us for years. They are still struggling to seperate emotions from reality. Where as we are thinking about dad’s safety and wellbeing. Yes the place isnt a 5 star hotel but the part we love about it is the staff gives a damn, and they are doing their best to not get his meds adjusted so that dad turns into a zombie
I passed through CT the other day and was in the V&A area and saw a lot of tents and stuff at the one intersection in the centre island. I was concentrating on the chaos of traffic to look closely what it was about. Anybody know? Was something happening?
