Personally I don't see the need as I have a computer I download most movies I want to watch on and just watch off my monitor or hdmi into my tv. Alternatives for streaming include just owning a smart tv (which most tvs are by default now) or buying a fire stick/chromecast/nvidia shield/ect ect x1billion. And if you have physical media a standalone cd/dvd/blueray player of decent quality probably costs like $20. There is no reason not to turn hdcp off on your consoles and just watch you movies/shows some other way to alleviate the headaches hdcp causes.ldeveraux wrote:I bought one off amazon that works a treat. Still not clear whether it's allowed to discuss though
Besides it isn't exactly secure anyways having been cracked the first day it was released. All it really does is cause headaches for people trying to watch stuff legally ironically. My main concern is having another device handling hdmi in the chain not knowing what quirks it will have with different resolutions and refresh rate combos, if it will compress the data, and if it adds any lag. Because hdmi is voodoo I vastly prefer to have as few devices as possible handling the signal. Namely directly from the console, to the switcher, to the tv and then from the tv to the audio receiver so if anything goes wrong it is the console(basically this can be ruled out by default because I've never had the problem be the device sending the signal out), the switcher, or one of 3 hdmi cables I need to troubleshoot. So troubleshooting is basically plug a fresh hdmi cable from the console directly to the tv and see if that solves the problem and if it does I've narrowed things down to 2 hdmi cables or the switcher right off the bat.