What does TV/Cable ready mean on a monitor?
What does TV/Cable ready mean on a monitor? Does that mean it is digital cable ready?
Anonymous, tv/cable ready when applied to digital devices generally means that the device is compliant with HDCP protocols. HDCP stands for high-bandwidth digital content protection, and is a form of copy protection that prevents users, like you and me, from simply plugging an HD source into some kind of capture device to pirate content. Lack of HDCP support plagued many older displays, both monitors and televisions, when it came about. Unfortunately people who have older displays can only connect an HDCP source via component cable instead of the much more convenient HDMI standard. Component simply can't handle the bandwidth necessary to carry HDCP compliant signals, or so companies tell us. What this means in the real world is that if you have a 1080p display that only has component inputs, or is not HDCP compliant, your source material will be limited to 1080i resolutions (including blu-rays).
I can't tell if this monitor is HDCP compliant or not as there's no link or model number provided here. But if its not, that means you can't connect any source by HDMI that requires HDCP compliance. Best of luck!
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