Have you ever tried hooking a cable box up to a computer monitor with a DVI cable? <br>
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Did it work? No? <br>
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That's the copy protection in action. <br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Johnston</b> <<a href="mailto:anaerin@gmail.com">anaerin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 1/15/06, Chris Ribe <<a href="mailto:chrisribe@gmail.com">chrisribe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > HDMI/DVI/Component in? I mean, seriously, is<br>> > it that hard (That's a serious question, not rhetorical)? As I
<br>> > understand it, the signal is still a digital stream. Is the stream<br>> > not compressed, thus requiring the card to recompress it?<br>><br>> HDMI and DVI-D are copy protected. Component is impractically high
<br>> bandwidth analog.<br><br>DVI-D and HDMI are *NOT* copy protected. Yet. They are too high a<br>bandwidth to cope with encoding at the moment, however. HDCP is the<br>(Proposed) system for copy-protecting content over a HDMI link, but as
<br>of yet there is no manufacturer who has added support (As to do so<br>would break support for current equipment), and Windows Vista is the<br>only software system known of so far to support it, which is not even<br>out of beta yet.
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