Does Blu-ray use HDCP protection yet

[urgannagru]

Considering getting a 24" monitor, and found a PVA oneat a fairly low pricebut it has neither HDCP compliance or 1:1 pixel mapping. Just wondering do you need a HDCP compliant monitor yet, heard that no films released so far use it though I could be mistaken, also with the format war ending is it likely that it will be brought into use in the next year, seen a couple of mentions of not before 2010 but those were old news articles from 2006.
Also are there any drivers for 8800 series cards that will allow me to use a 1080p resolution so that the picture won't be stretched?
Thanks for any information on this.

 

[techguy911]

HDCP is not a protection in the film itself it is hardware based and is used in hdmi, dvi and without hdcp support on your monitor most consumer devices that display 1080p will not work on your display, so it would be a waste of money.

Thus if i play my ps3 on a non-hdcp monitor and throw a blu-ray movie on it im not getting 1080p and get a black picture if i use hdmi.

HD-dvd, blu-ray and DVD players (with HDMI or DVI connectors) use HDCP to establish an encrypted digital connection. If the display device—or in the case of using a PC to decrypt and play back HD DVD or Blu-ray media, the graphics card (hardware, drivers and playback software)—does not support HDCP, then a connection cannot be established. As a result, a black picture and/or error message will likely be displayed instead of the video content.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCP

same goes for your video card so you will have to buy hdcp supported monitor IF you want to watch movies.

If your monitor/device has component in/out then your in luck you can get up to 1080i sometimes from dvd players/digital media boxes/hd-dvd and blu-ray and video game consoles but most times you get 480p depending on hardware support.