About DCP
Digital Content Protection LLC (DCP) is an organization that licenses technologies for protecting premium commercial entertainment content. High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is a specification developed by Intel Corporation to protect digital entertainment content across the DVI/HDMI interface. The HDCP specification provides a robust, cost-effective and transparent method for transmitting and receiving digital entertainment content to DVI/HDMI-compliant digital displays.HDCP has broad industry support from the major players in the digital entertainment value chain, including major motion picture studios such as The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures Entertainment and Fox Entertainment Group. Nearly 400 leading companies license the technology, including the following:
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"HDCP provides a secure environment that offers content providers the necessary protection for the HD format. Systems that require HDCP can expect the highest quality content in the future." 1 -- Jerry Pierce, Senior Vice President, Universal Pictures
"Samsung is committed to offering our customers the highest quality, all-digital audio visual experience with HDMI technology, and we are aggressively outfitting our DTV and DVD player product lines with HDMI-HDCP capability." 2 -- CW Hong, VP of Visual Display Division at Samsung
"HDMI with HDCP enables us to provide our customers access to the newest digital content and services available in the digital age, and we are committed to adopting HDMI across our lineup of DVD players and DTVs." 3 -- Dr. Choon Lee, VP, Digital TV Laboratory, LG Electronics
"Secure interconnections such as HDCP are important elements of an overall content delivery system, addressing a key need in the development of new channels for high quality digital content delivery." 4 -- Phil Lelyveld, Vice President, The Walt Disney Co.
"Content protection solutions such as HDCP enable new consumer digital media experiences while providing a protected environment for content creators, thereby ensuring that great content is made available over digital networks." -- Stephen Balogh, Vice President, Intel Corporation GF
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