Information seems a bit sketchy and conflicting on this issue, but one source seems to indicate that this may be enabled on December 31, 2010. In case you forgot, the Image Constraint Token is a mechanism by which content that has this flag or token turned on, will be down-rezzed on the component outputs of hardware that obeys the token. This is an attempt to plug the so-called "analog hole".
So if you rely on the HD component outputs from any of your hardware units, you could be in for an unpleasant surprise soon.
There is one potential fix for the consumer that I know of: units like the HDFury3 and the Moome EXT-FULLHD. These connect to an HDMI output, perform the HDCP handshake and then convert that digital signal to an HD, analog component output. I have tried the HDFury3. I'll write that up in a separate entry.
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