Is the 7900 GT HDCP compliant?

[Samwise]

Does anyone know if the new nvidia 7900 series is HDCP compliant? If not, when are the first video cards that are expected to be out?

 

[CCityInstaller]

I don't believe there is any current HDCP video adapter on the market. I think the R600 and the Nvidia G80 are supposed to be the first to support it.

 

[1Dark1Sharigan1]

It is HDCP compliant (the GPU that is). However, neither nvidia nor any board partner has paid the licensing fees to make the card itself be able to output HDCP . . .

 

[DeathReborn]

Originally posted by: 1Dark1Sharigan1
It is HDCP compliant (the GPU that is). However, neither nvidia nor any board partner has paid the licensing fees to make the card itself be able to output HDCP . . .

nVidia has paid the fees and the cards reside in Sony Vaio PC's. nVidia has the reference designs for both e HDCP & the non HDCP cards and both were shipped to board partners for them to choose. I don't think there are any 7900's with HDCP yet.


Sapphire I believe mentioned a HDMI & HDCP X1600Pro but I have no idea if it's been released yet.

 

[tuteja1986]

wait til R600/G80 core is out :!

 

[1Dark1Sharigan1]

Oops, I meant to say just the board partners have not opted to utilize the PCBs that included HDCP output.

Yeah I forgot about the 6 series cards sent to OEMs

 

[Samwise]

Excuse my ignorance, I'm not sure how this works. Is it possible that nvidia or one of the board partners could make the cards HDCP compliant through a driver or firmware update? Would having nvidia's purevideo help at all?

 

[amheck]

Originally posted by: tuteja1986
wait til R600/G80 core is out :!

What's the projected date for these? This fall?

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: Samwise
Excuse my ignorance, I'm not sure how this works. Is it possible that nvidia or one of the board partners could make the cards HDCP compliant through a driver or firmware update? Would having nvidia's purevideo help at all?

No, the HDCP keys are on a chip that has to be hard wired to the board. There is absolutely no way to firmware update or driver update them into compliance.

 

[darkdemyze]

Originally posted by: Golgatha

Originally posted by: Samwise
Excuse my ignorance, I'm not sure how this works. Is it possible that nvidia or one of the board partners could make the cards HDCP compliant through a driver or firmware update? Would having nvidia's purevideo help at all?

No, the HDCP keys are on a chip that has to be hard wired to the board. There is absolutely no way to firmware update or driver update them into compliance.

Yup, and here's why:
http://firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_nvidia_hdcp_support/

Simple answer to OP: No.

 

[bupkus]

Thanks, darkdemyze, for the link. I just finished the article and decided to put off that 7900GT purchase, althought the OOS status has been helping with that as well.
I don't have any kind of display that can show that resolution so I really don't even need HDCP compliance AND implementation.