Cannot watch rented movie - connection not HDCP

My Toshiba 32WLT68 LCD is HDCP compliant, but the Apple TV won't let me play the HD movie I spent hours downloading because it says the connection does not support HDCP. Could it be the cheap HDMI cable I'm using, or could there be some other issue?

The specs on Toshibas web site say its HD Ready, and it defines HD Ready as being "Concerns the ability of projectors to display high-definition pictures. To meet the HD ready standard the projector must have 720p horizontal lines of pixels, HDMI or DVI with HDCP and component".
I presume from this (and the fact that web sites selling my model of TV list it as supporting HDCP) that it does support HDCP. There is no mention of HDCP in the user manual though.
Do you think it's worth buying a different HDMI cable? Mine was a cheap one from ebay - but there are many people who claim that the quality of the HDMI cable doesn't make any difference. If I'm going to have to buy a new cable, I'd rather buy a new HDMI cable than a component cable - assuming that HDMI will work.
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