HDCP, shouldn't there at least be a label to know you can't play it?

I bought an HD move from iTunes a few nights ago. I paid my $15 just before dinner, hoping to watch it after dinner, but It took 3-4 hours to download, too late to play the same night. Now I discover that I can't actually play this HD movie on my 2 year old Samsung HD TV. It downloaded ok -- I successfully played a few seconds on my laptop, but the idea was to play this for the whole family on a big HD screen. Searching around I finally found that HDCP prevents me from playing the movie. Checking back later to the iTunes store I don't see any sort of warning or labeling to tell me in the future what will and will not work with my non-HDCP TV. Is this all some or all HD movies from iTunes, or maybe all movies? Am I supposed to throw out my 2 year old $1200 TV and buy a new one? No way, the net result is that I don't feel comfortable buying any sort of movie from iTunes again, I'll use streaming or go to Best Buy.
Our house is stuffed with Apple products (2 Pro's, 1 Air, 2 MacBooks, 2 iMacs, 1 iPad, 4 iPhones, 1 time capsule, uncountable iPods of all sizes) , but the past year paints a very negative corporate image. Apple does great design, but with awful ethics towards suppliers and customers. We also have two kindles, a droid phone and tablet, four switched off Windows machines, and a box of dead phones, most BB's. I'm not wild about Metro, but Android is ok and doesn't take me for granted. Next round of replacements goes to something other than Apple, their arrogance hasn't served us well.
Bill

It's not apple. It's the content providers. Blu-ray movies are like this too. In fact if you hook up a blu-ray player with red green blue HD connection, the player will only play it in standard def. because there is no HDCP. The movie companies are SO paranoid that everyone is going to pirate their content they put such rediculous restrictions on it. HDCP is also, in my experience, notoriously problematic. In iTunes preference select the play HD in standard def, that might be a temp work around.
You say your TV is only 2 years old. It's odd that it's not HDCP compliant. My Samsung is 6 years old & I don't have this problem. Try a different HDMI cable.

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