Today, the weather meant that two of the TVs at our shop couldn’t recieve the digital signals, so I decided to plug an upsampling DVD player into one of the plasmas so they would be displaying an image. I intended to loop out the signal from the plasma to an LCD that was playing up.
But I couldn’t do it. The LCD was insisting that there was no signal in. Was the input defective? Was the plasma’s output completely buggered? Should I send them back to their manufacturers for repair?
I had the DVD player hooked up via HDMI, so it looks like the plasma had disabled its "Monitor Out" output on purpose to honor HDCP. So yes, the plasma is defective: Defective By Design.
Lots of people have virtually forgotten about HDCP and PCP because they can’t currently see any situations where they’d be affected by it. Well, I’m one of the early affected. As a result, one of the TVs here is displaying "No Signal", which doesn’t reflect well on us or our products! How on earth do I explain to customers that the TVs are defective (by design)?
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