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Another option is that somebody got ahold of some HDCP chips that fell off the back of a truck. There are Chinese companies (Explore Semi and friends) that make HDCP repeater chips with decryption / encryption capabilities. Those bad boys can take an HDCP-protected input stream and strip the encryption right off.

DCP controls chip sales very tightly in the US, but I imagine it's a practical impossibility in Shenzhen.

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You don't even need go get the chips, devices like this strip the HDCP and turn the stream into MJPEG. http://blog.danman.eu/reverse-engineering-lenkeng-hdmi-over-... Here is their 4K device, don't know if it works like the HD device, but it would seem there is a fair chance it does.

http://www.lenkeng.net/Index/detail/id/147

You can buy these devices on eBay.

So it's a better quality Chinese knock off? We need a word for this.

"consumer friendliness"

"Chinese knock-up"?

According to the "Big Book of Hoaxes", Alceo Dossena's works were sold with a certificate certifying them as "genuine fakes".

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