Posted: 5/5/2011 6:11:12 AM EDT
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I've fnally run into an issue with "you're system is not HDCP capable" or some crap like that. Even though HD plays well when I manage to bypass that DRM stuff.
Nonetheless it is a hassle. My mobo setup right now: ASUS P5N-E SLI LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard PCI Express x16 2 (SLI mode: x8, x8) PCI Express x1 1 PCI Slots 2 SAPPHIRE 100172L Radeon X1550 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card Interface PCI Express x16 Despite the specs showing HDTV / S-Video / Composite Out the system keeps bringing up the HDCP stuff. I'm looking for a video card, HDCP capable, that will simply pop in to the current mobo, so it has to be backward compliant with the interfaces detailed above, say up to $75. I have an Ultra VX600 power supply. So will 2.0x16 and 2.1x16 cards work in my mobo? Thanks. Monitor is a Viewsonic vx1935wm that is DVI and is currently connected that way (vs VGA). More google results say the monitor is HDCP compliant vs not. And I've never had a problem watching 1080P content on it unless the DRM kicks in which leads me to the card as the bottleneck. |
| Go on newegg.com and pretty much anything you'd find nowadays will support HDCP. Again, your monitor has to support it also, but I'm assuming you're plugging this into a TV? And your monitor only has to support it if you're using it for something like a PS3 (or possibly playing an actual Blu-ray movie from the PC? not sure on that one). Basically go look for a Radeon HD 5000 or 6000 series card, and get the best one you can find for $75. Check under the details tab and it'll say whether or not it's HDCP compliant. Pretty much everything is lately, you probably just got this card right when they started putting HDMI and DVI on everything, but dual-link and HDCP support was still rare? |
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Go on newegg.com and pretty much anything you'd find nowadays will support HDCP. Again, your monitor has to support it also, but I'm assuming you're plugging this into a TV? And your monitor only has to support it if you're using it for something like a PS3 (or possibly playing an actual Blu-ray movie from the PC? not sure on that one). Basically go look for a Radeon HD 5000 or 6000 series card, and get the best one you can find for $75. Check under the details tab and it'll say whether or not it's HDCP compliant. Pretty much everything is lately, you probably just got this card right when they started putting HDMI and DVI on everything, but dual-link and HDCP support was still rare? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131387 That'd do you pretty good. Unless you need a low profile card, but they've got lots of those too. The good thing about ATI/AMD series cards is that there's always a ton of them on the market. |
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Quoted: Yup, HDCP also requires a compatible display. Not so much 'compatible' as in 'must support onerous DRM' from the source to the output. Saying 'not compatible' is social engineering. The hardware has been capable of HD since the early 2000's, at least. Thank you, RIAA and MPAA, for treatng all your customers as if they were criminals. m |