Avant and HDCP 2.2

Please excuse if this has been discussed elsewhere, but will Avant be able to handle HDCP 2.2? That is the new protection movie studios require to enable a TV to play (4K) content sent from e.g bluray player.

This is separate from the HDMI 2.0 issue.

Anyone knows?

Hi Hiort,

When they upgraded the HDMI´s from ver 1.4 to 2.0, they also upgraded to HDCP 2.2. But only for the HDMI #1! 

Since you are in Sweden: please note that as of today you can download a new SW for the Avant (Nordic countries only, the rest of the world to follow on the 21st of September).

Roger

Hi Roger - please tell us a bit more about the update ;-)

Only for the Avant (4K related), or?

MM

Hi MM,

They have solved reported issues related to no sound at start-up, dropout in the wireless speaker connection and the issue where multiroom products were unable to discover each other (=no sound distribution). Not sure why the distribution is limited to the Nordic countries (compared to Scandinavia or Europe only) for this week - might be because they want to test it here first...

Roger

Thanks.

No update to my V1 anyway - yet!

But only the 'no sound distribution' thing could be important there.

MM

My BV 11 was updated. 

Roger:

Hi Hiort,

When they upgraded the HDMI´s from ver 1.4 to 2.0, they also upgraded to HDCP 2.2. But only for the HDMI #1! 

Since you are in Sweden: please note that as of today you can download a new SW for the Avant (Nordic countries only, the rest of the world to follow on the 21st of September).

Roger

Thanks for the clarification.

I have no Avant (yet) but I just came back from the IBC show in Amsterdam, where 4K UHD, HDR, HDCP etc was a hot topic.

Listened to the Executive Director of Advanced Technology at Disney Studios. He talked around UHD and Disney Studios is one of the few studios not embracing 4K in their productions (they film everything in 4K but the production is not 4K based). He thought HDR (High Dynamic Range) was the future and added much more to the "story telling" than 4K as such.

Full production in 4K added 10 - 15 MUSD to the production bill ,and the producers would rather spend those moneys in effects, marketing etc.  

Adding HDR to the production was much much less, and the positive impact on the "story telling" was big.

Problem is that there are a few different specs on HDR, so the few TVs handling HDR today may not handle HDR tomorrow.

I watched some HDR screens with HDR produced content and the image was amazing. The picture really "popped"