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Originally Posted by mars000
Just to clairy, are you saying in order to enable HDCP I need to use the drivers specified by aBit or can I update to latest Catalyst 7.6 from ATI and still support HDCP....I can't seem to get it to work with HDMI with my Pioneer PDP-504 and I think its related to no HDCP signal
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Hi mars000,
1st off this m/b does support HDCP version 1.1, i confirmed this with abit and ATI, furthermore i actually use HDCP on this m/b. The HDCP implementaion has not failed even once, and i've played a lot of HD DVD by which Power DVD Ultra does use HDCP even though
ICT is currenlty not set by Hollywood.
To do an end to end HDCP test is easy,
just download the cyberlink blu-ray/HD DVD advisor and do a scan, it includes an end to end HDCP test.
Here is a screen shot from the cyberlink blu-ray/HD DVD advisor on the Fatality F-I90HD/ATI x1250 running ATI catalyst 7.6
Don't get too concerned about the advice on CPU upgrade, every HD DVD i've played, there is always ample idle CPU cycles left, and playback is perfectly smooth.
The unknown status on ATI x1250, simply means that cyberlink have not enabled any hardware assisted decoding of H.264 or VC-1, and offloads it all to the CPU ( Intel E6300 C2D ) which does the job quite nicely anyway.
The only reasons the end to end HDCP would fail are if your display does not support HDCP v1.1, or your display does not support HDMI v1.2 or you are using VGA.
You are better off using the ATI drivers from ATI web site, currently 7.6.
The drivers on the abit web site, are just the now very old and out of date ATI 7.3 drivers. But ATI 7.3 does support HDCP as well FYI.
