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Is the Disabling HDCP good?

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Hello everyone

Firstly, this year I decided to start installing my drivers through NVCleanstall as I heard many good things about it, I can only say that it's great, thank you so much for this program.

However, there has been an option I decided not to touch since I started using it and that is the one that says "Disable HDCP", I have little knowledge of what is it but I think is like some sort of protection protocol for digital media, so that setting arose my curiosity.

My question is what pros and cons does it have? (I've read the Help thread but it only speaks about performance, not about how that setting can affect the user experience outside of games).
 

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Leave it switched on. You're right, it's DRM so protected content like Amazon Prime Video won't play without it.
 
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Unless you have issues with recording your gameplay over HDMI with your capture card that doesn't properly support HDCP or something, I guess there is no real "pro" for disabling it.
Some say you may have a slightly improved latency, but it may just be a placebo, and if you want improved latency, up your FPS and/or convert to OLED.
 
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Ok, thank you for your fast replies, I'll leave it on then.
 

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Ok, thank you for your fast replies, I'll leave it on then.
I tell ya what, it doesn't hurt to have a play with it to see how these protected services react to it. Ya know, pure enthusiast tinkering. :)

I'll try it myself with Amazon and Netflix, for example.

EDIT: the NVIDIA driver control panel shows the status as enabled, but doesn't have the option to switch it off.
 
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