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digitalayon
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:37 pm Post subject: So why the gripe about the HDCP thing? |
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Now I could be wrong about this, but....my understanding of 1080P is a resolution of 1920x1080. If your projector is capable of this and you have a HTPC with a Blue-Ray player in it and even have HDMI to a RBG converter, Why would I want a HD-Fury? Of course I am talking movies only. I know it is different for TV watching. But if movies are it for a bunch of people like me, why would I need anything else? I'm not trying to be ignorant...I just don't know any better.
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dvh99
Joined: 25 Dec 2009
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Location: nederland
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i really find the picture better via hdmi then via vga but if all you do is watch movies with a htpc and the picture quality is sufficient for you with vga (hdmi-->vga or dvi-->vga)then you won`t need the hdfury of course.
use total media theatre and dvdfab to reset region settings.
these programs work flawless until now.
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garyfritz
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Location: Fort Collins, CO
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:16 pm Post subject: Re: So why the gripe about the HDCP thing? |
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| digitalayon wrote: | | Now I could be wrong about this, but....my understanding of 1080P is a resolution of 1920x1080. If your projector is capable of this and you have a HTPC with a Blue-Ray player in it and even have HDMI to a RBG converter, Why would I want a HD-Fury? |
So you can *watch* that 1080p. No CRT projector has HDMI inputs. They were built years before HDMI was invented. So you need a converter to get an RGB signal for your projector.
Now if your HTPC has an HDMI to RGB converter, you *don't* need the Fury. That's all the Fury is -- an HDMI to RGB converter.
HDCP is another issue. That's the security imposed on HDMI signals. It's supposed to prevent digital HDMI signals from getting converted to RGB (outside of a display device) because that would supposedly be easier to pirate. (Which is beyond stupid, because the pirates have managed to crack the security on the disks themselves. They can get a bit-for-bit perfect copy off the disk, so who who cares about RGB? Only retro fanatics like us.) So if the HDCP security prevents your converter from producing RGB, you're hosed.
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TheVerge
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I would say just about all htpcs will output VGA.
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jask
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| TheVerge wrote: | | I would say just about all htpcs will output VGA. |
Not at 1080P from a Bluray source unless you are defeating the copy protection.
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sanzo9981
Joined: 23 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:20 am Post subject: Re: So why the gripe about the HDCP thing? |
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| digitalayon wrote: | | Now I could be wrong about this, but....my understanding of 1080P is a resolution of 1920x1080. If your projector is capable of this and you have a HTPC with a Blue-Ray player in it and even have HDMI to a RBG converter, Why would I want a HD-Fury? Of course I am talking movies only. I know it is different for TV watching. But if movies are it for a bunch of people like me, why would I need anything else? I'm not trying to be ignorant...I just don't know any better. |
using the internal media player(Optoma PK201 mini projector). Recommend you Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper.Converting BD movies to 1080P MP4/AVI. Quality is good too. Speed is good on my quad core pc on Win7.
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