Help With Bluray

[RavenGuard]

Hey all. I recently got my hands on a Pioneer BD-ROM drive, and I have "300" to test it out. It plays the movie just fine, but it seems to me that it is not playing in 1080p, but rather in 480p or similar resolution.

I have the BD-ROM in my pc (pioneer bdc-202bk), I am outputting video through an HD4870 over DVI to a Dell 2408wfp display. Audio is going through standard 3.5mm jacks from a Xonar DX to my Logitech Z5500 system.

The software I am using is "Power DVD 8 Ultra."



Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[thomsbrain]

IIRC, you can't send 1080P over a non-HDCP connection (basically anything but HDMI). The copy-protection defaults it down to 480p if it can't get that HDCP handshake. So while DVI could technically send the video, the software won't allow it.

Feel free to correct me.

 

[s44]

DVI carries HDCP signals just as well.

 

[RavenGuard]

Originally posted by: thomsbrain
IIRC, you can't send 1080P over a non-HDCP connection (basically anything but HDMI). The copy-protection defaults it down to 480p if it can't get that HDCP handshake. So while DVI could technically send the video, the software won't allow it.

Feel free to correct me.

As s44 said, the DVI on both my video card and monitor are supposedly HDCP.

EDIT:

I've Managed to figure the problem out with some fiddling.

Thanks!

 

[thomsbrain]

Thanks for the corrections, I learn something new every day.

 

[bigsnyder]

If HDCP doesn't work correctly, you generally won't get any picture. PowerDVD will refuse to play. Ravenguard, what did you do to fix it?

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: RavenGuard

Originally posted by: thomsbrain
IIRC, you can't send 1080P over a non-HDCP connection (basically anything but HDMI). The copy-protection defaults it down to 480p if it can't get that HDCP handshake. So while DVI could technically send the video, the software won't allow it.

Feel free to correct me.

As s44 said, the DVI on both my video card and monitor are supposedly HDCP.

EDIT:

I've Managed to figure the problem out with some fiddling.

Thanks!

can you detail this?