The Inquirer reports that licenses for the video DRM system HDMI/HDCP cost $15,000. HDCP licenses are required for electronics (monitors, players, recorders) that want to use high-definition video from the Hollywood studios. On top of the 15 grand, companies have to meet a punishing and arbitrary "compliance" regime that requires them to shut out open source developers who want to build apps for their hardware and implement a host of anti-user features that treat their customers like crooks.
Of course you have to pay the licensing fee of $15.000 and this will sure keep a lot of the Taiwanese companies out of this promising marchitecture.
Some of them want to use and have paid the licensing fees as the people in Japan really wants the graphic cards and the motherboards with HDMI on it. It is an easy way to drive audio and video via single cable, nothing more than that.
