jpm, 1 year ago

@damonyoung there be DRM dragons, not sure if it’s even possible anymore

Kels_316, 1 year ago

@jpm @damonyoung could you put the mac into target display mode and just use it as the screen?

damonyoung, 1 year ago

@jpm @Kels_316 That was what I was hoping for, basically just using the iMac as a big (ish) screen

Kels_316, 1 year ago

@damonyoung @jpm you'd need a cable to go from the HDMI out of the BluRay to the mac, such a thing probably exists but no idea.

damonyoung, 1 year ago

@Kels_316 @jpm Someone said I could use an “HDMI to DisplayPort adapter and then plug that into the Thunderbolt port on the iMac”.

aethersia, 1 year ago

@damonyoung @Kels_316 @jpm make sure the adapter plugs into the blu ray player with a seperate display port cable going to the Mac that plugs into the adaptor, it should also require 5V USB (some Blu ray players have a USB port) for the conversion of TMDS/HDMI to display port. Don't mistakenly buy a display port to HDMI adaptor that would plug into the Mac, that's the wrong direction and you can tell coz those get power from the display port and don't use the 5V USB

jpm, 1 year ago

@aethersia @damonyoung @Kels_316 do you know if they work with HDCP? That’s my concern with doing anything even slightly outside of “normal” (connecting BD player to TV)

aethersia, 1 year ago

@jpm @damonyoung @Kels_316 it depends on the specific adapter, this one does support HDCP: https://www.startech.com/en-au/display-video-adapters/128-hdmi-displayport

But this one doesn't: https://www.startech.com/en-au/display-video-adapters/hd2dp

So yeah gotta check the specs for explicit HDCP support as well