HDCP Compliant System?

[ata786rz]

Greetings all,

I am trying to build a HDCP compliant system that uses HDMI for both video and audio. Latest ATI and NVidia cards are HDCP compliant. That solves the video part (correct me if I am wrong). However, When it come to audio, only ATI has in 7.1 channel embedded audio controller for HDMI. While Nvidia has an SPDIF input port. But are they HDCP compliant? Moreover, I found that nvidia has SPDIF input which only support lossy 5.1 while HDMI support lossless 7.1 or something better. Please help me.

Syed Rizwan

 

[kalrith]

AFAIK, the sound card doesn't matter when it comes to being HDCP compliant. I don't think any dedicated Nvidia cards support lossless 7.1, but their integrated 9300/9400 motherboards do. ATI's 4xxx line supports lossless 7.1. I'm not sure if that entire line supports it, but I'm sure that anything 4550 and up does.

 

[ata786rz]

Thank you very much.

 

[erwos]

I think this is implied, but your display (eg, LCD) needs to support HDCP, too.