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Hardware:
CPU: AMD X2 4400 EE
MB: K9N SLI Platinum
MEMORY: 2 * 1GB Corsair (Not Value)
VIDEO CARD: Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Ultimate Silent 256MB (RETAIL)
POWER: Corsair VX450W
HD: Hitachi 7K500 (500GB) Sata II
CASE: Zalman HD160Plus
HD-DVD: Xbox 360 HD-DVD
Format of Harddrive for tests. No upgrades performed, just one off installs of each component.
OS: Vista Ultimate 32
DRIVERS: ATI 7.12
HD PLAYBACK SOFTWARE: Cyberlink PowerDVD ULTRA version 3516
Hello all,
Hopefully some clever sausage here will guide me to the path of enlightment
I am using the DVI -> HDMI dongle (Supplied in the box with the video card, this one allows sound to be carried over the HDMI cable) on video out 1 of my ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Ultimate Silent 256MB card. This then connects into a HDMI cable, which then connects into a Philips 32PFL9632/10 TV via the HDMI port (This TV has 3 HDMI 1.3 slots).
I have been trying to get HDMI output (With HDCP) from my Mediacentre to my TV for over a month now.
For my latest attempt, I formatted the harddrive and reinstalled Vista 32 (Ultimate), ATI Drivers 7.12, PowerDVD Ultra version 3516.
When I test the HDCP compatility of the media centre using the Blu-Ray HD Advisor program from Cyberlink (www.cyberlink.com).
It reports I am using a digital connection without HDCP support.
NOTE - I am getting Audio coming out from the TV over the HDMI cable. I am just not getting confirmed HDCP protected path. Which means no lovely HD playback.
This means that
1. GFX card is not correctly supporting HDCP or HDCP is not supported on both Video Outs
2. The DVI/HDMI dongle supplied with the video card is not supporting the HDCP path correctly.
3. The 7.12 drivers are not reporting back the status of the TV HDCP capabilties correctly.
4. Cyberlink is not testing the HDCP path correctly in either their PowerDVD Ultra or HD/Blu-Ray Adivsor programs correctly.
5. Philips LCD design department have managed to get wrong their HDCP implementation.
So if anyone has any thoughts, or understand the whole ****** world of HDCP and how things can fail, then I would be happy to absorb your wise words
Confirmed knowledge and not hearsay would be good.
I have transformers/blade runner and bourne ultimatum or waiting for some HD Love. Plus the wife is stranglely unimpressed with why its taking so long
NOTE - I have an 8800 GTX going to a BENQ FP241WZ (Gaming machine) and the playback is fine there. This is using a DVI to DVI cable. The one above is going from DVI to HDMI with a DVI/HDMI dongle in the middle.
CPU: AMD X2 4400 EE
MB: K9N SLI Platinum
MEMORY: 2 * 1GB Corsair (Not Value)
VIDEO CARD: Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Ultimate Silent 256MB (RETAIL)
POWER: Corsair VX450W
HD: Hitachi 7K500 (500GB) Sata II
CASE: Zalman HD160Plus
HD-DVD: Xbox 360 HD-DVD
Format of Harddrive for tests. No upgrades performed, just one off installs of each component.
OS: Vista Ultimate 32
DRIVERS: ATI 7.12
HD PLAYBACK SOFTWARE: Cyberlink PowerDVD ULTRA version 3516
Hello all,
Hopefully some clever sausage here will guide me to the path of enlightment
I am using the DVI -> HDMI dongle (Supplied in the box with the video card, this one allows sound to be carried over the HDMI cable) on video out 1 of my ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Ultimate Silent 256MB card. This then connects into a HDMI cable, which then connects into a Philips 32PFL9632/10 TV via the HDMI port (This TV has 3 HDMI 1.3 slots).
I have been trying to get HDMI output (With HDCP) from my Mediacentre to my TV for over a month now.
For my latest attempt, I formatted the harddrive and reinstalled Vista 32 (Ultimate), ATI Drivers 7.12, PowerDVD Ultra version 3516.
When I test the HDCP compatility of the media centre using the Blu-Ray HD Advisor program from Cyberlink (www.cyberlink.com).
It reports I am using a digital connection without HDCP support.
NOTE - I am getting Audio coming out from the TV over the HDMI cable. I am just not getting confirmed HDCP protected path. Which means no lovely HD playback.
This means that
1. GFX card is not correctly supporting HDCP or HDCP is not supported on both Video Outs
2. The DVI/HDMI dongle supplied with the video card is not supporting the HDCP path correctly.
3. The 7.12 drivers are not reporting back the status of the TV HDCP capabilties correctly.
4. Cyberlink is not testing the HDCP path correctly in either their PowerDVD Ultra or HD/Blu-Ray Adivsor programs correctly.
5. Philips LCD design department have managed to get wrong their HDCP implementation.
So if anyone has any thoughts, or understand the whole ****** world of HDCP and how things can fail, then I would be happy to absorb your wise words
Confirmed knowledge and not hearsay would be good. I have transformers/blade runner and bourne ultimatum or waiting for some HD Love. Plus the wife is stranglely unimpressed with why its taking so long
NOTE - I have an 8800 GTX going to a BENQ FP241WZ (Gaming machine) and the playback is fine there. This is using a DVI to DVI cable. The one above is going from DVI to HDMI with a DVI/HDMI dongle in the middle.
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