NEW APPLE LAPTOPS WON'T WORK WITH BIG SCREENS
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NEW APPLE LAPTOPS WON'T WORK WITH BIG SCREENS
Apple's recently released MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops contain a copy protection program that prevents many movies downloaded from Apple's iTunes site from playing back on large TV monitors and projectors, the website ArsTechnica reported Tuesday. The website said that the software, developed by Intel, called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) causes an error message to appear when a large TV monitor is hooked up to the laptop. The message reads, "This movie cannot be played because a display that is not authorized to play protected movies is connected -- Try disconnecting any displays that are not HDCP authorized." Oddly, the copy-protection software appears only to affect movies downloaded from iTunes. Two television shows reportedly played fine.
19/11/2008
