(2) Short for Digital Video Interactive, a now-defunct technology developed by General Electric that enables a computer to store and display moving video images like those on television. The most difficult aspect of displaying TV-like images on a computer is overcoming the fact that each frame requires an immense amount of storage. A single frame can require up to 2MB (megabytes) of storage. Televisions display 30 frames per second, which can quickly exhaust a computer's mass storage resources. It is also difficult to transfer so much data to a display screen at a rate of 30 frames per second.

DVI overcomes these problems by using specialized processors to compress and decompress the data. DVI is a hardware -only codec (compression/decompression) technology. A competing hardware codec, which has become much more popular, is MPEG. Intel has developed a software version of the DVI algorithms, which it markets under the name Indeo.

(3) Short for Device Independent, a file format used by the TeX typography system.

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Digital Visual Interface (DVI) Explained & Improving GeForce2/3 Image Quality
A 2002 article from AnandTech.

HDCP: What It Is and How To Use It
April 2002 article from EDN Access gives a comprehensive explanation of HDCP, including diagrams and the mathematical calculation used to encrypt the digital data.