Why HD content will not be on your computer

There have been many posts about people not seeing HD content available for their computer, but only the Apple TV. The reason is not Apple's but the content providers (movie and TV studios) have set up rules for all hardware and software suppliers that are intended to stop consumers from making digital to digital copies of HD content. The only way the industry wants their content to be digitally outputted is through HDMI or DVI, today primarily HDMI. The only devices that are allowed to take in HDMI or DVI are monitors or TVs that will have HDCP protection decoders. All recording devices like DVD recorders only have SD inputs like s-video and composite video all SD 480i.
If Apple or any computer or peripheral supplier for computer has an HDMI or DVI input device, it will NOT have a HDCP decoding capabilities. There are computer boards that have HDMI input ports intended for you to capture your own video from your HD Camcorder, but none will decode a signal the has HDCP protection.
I know lots of people are disappointed that they cannot watch their rented iTunes movies on their beautiful iMac and Cinema screens in HD, but that is the content industries rules not Apple’s. Apple TV recorded HD content has HDCP protection on their digital HDMI output. Apple will be able to control people from extracting the HD content from this device a lot easier than one of their computers.
This issue has been bouncing around for over a year with HD DVRs when studios and TV stations started broadcasting HD content. Their outputs that are digital, mostly HDMI, all support HDCP protection like Apple TV’s HDMI port. The Apple TV is very much like a DVR where it records on to a Hard Drive and output for viewing over HDMI or Component outputs. The real difference is Apple TV records off the Internet.

MBPr's are very recent machines. The oldest ones are from this past summer. Mine has a quad-core i7 2.6 GHz and 16 GB of RAM, and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5, along with the Retina display. This is more than enough system power to display HD movies, per the article you reference unhelpfully.
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