HDCP compatible ?

Dam!

Thanks for finding out for me. So even if i do get a HDCP compatible graphics card, I will still not be able to play Blu Ray / HD-DVD films :(

The Viewsonic is my primary display for doing work etc, but I also have a LG 22LS4R LCD TV connected as a secondary display. Is this HDCP compatible, and would I be able to play HD films though this as a secondary display?

Thanks
 
A quick search suggests that the LG is HDCP compliant. Not sure what the situation with multiple monitors would be.. interesting point.

It's a shame that HDCP makes things difficult for those who are doing nothing wrong.
 
True,

It is a real shame that we have to have HDCP compatible hardware!!!! - I thought the moment you got some DVD playing software and a Blu Ray / HD DVD player, you was away.

Never mind, things may change in the future!

How then do we get a standlone HD DVD / Blu Ray player to work on any type of screen?

If the LG is compatible, has anybody got around the issue of dual screen displays?

Thanks
 
Hi,

Just ran Cyberlinks HD / Blu Ray Advisor.

They say my Graphcs card is fine :) and the problem is just my screen. Is my LG LCD 22LS4R compatible. I have tried a HDMI ---> DVI and HDCP still fails. So should I use an RGB connection to PC? - Would this be better?

Thanks
 
Hi,

Just tried it on a RGA cable connect and all fine fine. I can now play DVD's on Blu Ray and HD DVD without anydvd :)

I suppose it could be the cable HDMI ---> DVI not being compatible. It was a cheap cabl only costing £5.00. Do I need to get a better cable which is HDCP compatible?
 
Hi,

I have a extra cable with my graphics card which plugs into like a s-video socket on my card, but provides a Green, Red & Blue cable socket. Would these work with HDCP (Componet Cable connections)?

Thanks
 
rlculver said:
Hi,

I have a extra cable with my graphics card which plugs into like a s-video socket on my card, but provides a Green, Red & Blue cable socket. Would these work with HDCP (Componet Cable connections)?

Thanks
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Hi

The component cable connections should work great i forgot all about that cable i have one with my graphics card but have never used it yet.

The component input on your lcd doesnt need hdcp its only for digital connections so it will work.
 
rlculver said:
Hi,

Just ran Cyberlinks HD / Blu Ray Advisor.

They say my Graphcs card is fine :) and the problem is just my screen. Is my LG LCD 22LS4R compatible. I have tried a HDMI ---> DVI and HDCP still fails. So should I use an RGB connection to PC? - Would this be better?

Thanks
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I expect the problem is that your graphics card doesn't support HDCP. What card is it? The green dot next to the graphics card doesn't mean it supports HDCP - it simply means that your graphics card is likely to be capable of playing back HD-DVD or Blu-Ray content. If either your graphics card or display don't support HDCP, and you use DVI (or HDMI) then you will see something like "Digital (not HDCP)" under the display heading.

Your options are to replace your graphics card with one that is HDCP capable, or to use VGA instead. If you use VGA (or any other analogue connection, such as component, or a DVI to VGA converter, which behaves exactly like VGA) then HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disks will play properly unless they have the Image Constraint Token (ICT) set, which none do at present. Using non-HDCP DVI you won't be able to view an image at all.

If you're absolutely sure that both your graphics card and display support HDCP then double check that the latest graphics card drivers are installed properly.

Finally of course the other option is to buy Slysoft AnyDVD HD, which I think is supposed to get around the HDCP problem. Obviously this doesn't come with a guarantee that it will always work.
 
Just tried a male to male VGA cable and it works :)

So is it just the cheep cable I have for HDMI >>>>> DVI. Should I by a more expensive cable which meets HDCP?
 
rlculver said:
Just tried a male to male VGA cable and it works :)

So is it just the cheep cable I have for HDMI >>>>> DVI. Should I by a more expensive cable which meets HDCP?
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No, it's not the cable. The X1900XT doesn't support HDCP - or at least it almost certainly doesn't. The GPU chip itself can potentially support HDCP but most (all?) of the manufacturers didn't support it so it doesn't work. As I said before, because VGA is an analog connection it's "allowed" by the HD-DVD / Blu-Ray rules to play HD content at full resolution unless the Image Constraint Token is set. HDCP is only possible for digital (DVI-D and HDMI) connections.

You could upgrade your graphics card - the latest cards do mostly support HDCP. Alternatively you could keep using VGA (and accept any difference in image quality if you can see it, with the issue that if the ICT is enabled then you won't be able to watch HD-DVD anymore).

The other alternative as I mentioned before is to use AnyDVD, which is supposed to work though I don't know anything about it myself.

(Another quick note: if you're using a DVI to VGA adapter and then a VGA cable, you might be confused that this works but that I'm saying that using DVI to HDMI won't work. The reason is that the output on your graphics card will be DVI-I, which contains both analog and digital connections. The VGA adapter uses the analog connections (DVI-A), which is allowed to play HD content, whereas the HDMI adapter (or if you just connect to a DVI connection on most monitors) uses the digital connections (DVI-D), which is only allowed to play HD content if the HDCP encryption chain is complete)
 
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Hi,

Thanks for your information.

I think I will just go for the RGB / VGA cable. Having briefly watched the first 5 minutes of some films last night on a very short cable, I could not see any difference in quality at all.

I will go and get a 3 metre VGA cable tomorrow :)

Thanks for the information.

Regards

Robert

P.S - I take it their is not that much quality difference between DVI / HDMI / RGB?? - Thanx
 
rlculver said:
P.S - I take it their is not that much quality difference between DVI / HDMI / RGB?? - Thanx
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DVI and HDMI are exactly the same as far as the picture signal is concerned. Whether VGA is as good or not depends mostly on your monitor - some recent monitors have fairly bad VGA inputs and it ends up looking worse than it should.

In lots of cases though the difference is fairly negligable and you'd be very hard pushed to spot a change - if you're happy with the VGA picture then I'd stick with that.
 
Hi,

Decided to go with a 8600 GTS 256 MB card which supports HDCP.

All working fine, although I seem to have some loud sound pitches from my TV, onced configured with nvidia software.

Plays DVD's fine, but horrible interface sound wise. Could it be a fault with the HDMI >> DVI cable. The problems seems to be their. Do I need a better quality cable? As soon as I disconnect the cable, the hissing sound goes.

Any ideas?
 
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