Don't all HD players feature HDCP?

[dougzer0]

this guy is talking out his ass, right ?

"During Vista's development, Sony and the MPAA demanded that Vista include the HDCP encryption tunnel (which microsoft was forced to develop). Microsoft made an arrangment with Sony, that if they put the HDCP tunnel in Vista, then blue-ray's must have HDCP encryption by 2010. Right after microsoft made this arrangment, they fully backed and supported HD-DVD. And since the HDCP tunnel does exist within Vista, Sony is now required to put HDCP on blue-ray's by 2010, or Microsoft will sue them. In other words, Microsoft purposefully played Sony's arrogance against them, and now they will be forced to put HDCP on their own media, which will most assuredly tank it (because HDCP is ****ing retarded)."

don't all blu-ray / hd-dvd players already implement HDCP and isn't it up to the studios' discretion to enable the image constraint token (ICT) to limit content ? Without the ICT flag set, players will send the full 1080p signal to any display device whether it is HDCP compliant or not ?