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I'm not arguing for DRM, but that's an awful analogy. No better than saying having a lock on your front door assumes all of your houseguests are criminals. And the latter that you KNEW exactly what you were buying when you did it so nothing was "removed".

I have a computer that can copy videos and convert them to different formats. If I want to watch a Blu-Ray that feature of my computer is removed. It is nonsensical to say "that you KNEW exactly what you were buying". A feature *was* removed, you can't deny that. Why was this feature removed? Because the provider assuming you are a pirate and want to copy and share the video with your friends and others, or even sell it for profit.

And HDMI has nothing to do with Blu-Ray.

Technical you are correct, I meant HDCP, but in practice nobody heart anything about that and only knows about HDMI.

http://www.geekosystem.com/hdc...

HDCP is currently the DRM standard for, among other means of HD transmission, HDMI, DVI, and Blu-Ray.

http://www.hdtvsupply.com/hdmi...

Q: I'm starting to build an HDMI home theater system, what should I keep in mind? [...] Insure all devices are on the most recent firmware [...] Try to buy all the HDMI devices and HDMI cables from one vendor as they have probably all been tested with each other assuring a system that will work. [...] Q: Everything was working and now I don't see video on my TV, what do I do? A: You may have lost your HDCP handshake so power cycle all devices by resetting them or pulling the AC plug

I'm an idiot - converters I linked work in the wrong direction. What you need is $150 from the same site or $50 from eBay (the two devices look identical, except for the price - whether they are or not it anybody's guess).

I'm running mad looking for an HDMI-to-RCA downscaler - my laptop has HDMI and DVI outputs, but my church's $12,000 switching/scaling system only does composite.

If your laptop has DVI-I rather than DVI-D (and I've never seen one with only DVI-D), it's already capable of outputting analog component RGB, but not composite. If your input equipment only takes composite, converters go for about $100.

http://www.hdtvsupply.com/hdmi-over-cat6.html

direct connect if the jacks go to a patch panel- right? right?

skip the switch for that circuit alone.
there is no practical way to do it with a switch
you'd have to convert the HDMI to packet data
anything that would allow that- would crap- be really painful on the pocketbook..

Heck, like many other problems, you can just throw a little less money than they are extorting out of you to solve the problem.

For $180, you can begin get a HDMI to Component converter. It's not as cheap as those other solutions but it's still cheaper than running out to get your MPAA approved device.

You pay, but: http://www.hdtvsupply.com/huhdtuthhdtu.html

Well, there's this, but I think you'll need a few more coupons! If it's raw stream data you're after, you probably want one of the USB dongle tuners. I think there's a KWorld one out there for around $50. IIRC, their satellite DVB tuner cards were popular with the hacking community.