Need help to view DVD on LCD monitor

[billnrhodes]

Hi Everyone, Just joined here in hopes of getting some help with this. I have an HDTV set top box with a built in DVD player LG LST3510A. This box puts out an excellant picture to my hdtv with DVI input. I wanted to try it with my LCD monitor thats on my computer. I use the RGB connection to my monitor and can watch HDTV ok. I try to watch a DVD and get a copywrite message that tells me I cannot view the DVD useing the RGB. Well the monitor only has the 9 pin RGB input. The box has all these outputs..coax, composite, component,9 pin rgb, and dvi hdtv. I want to use any but the coax or composite. The reason is becuase with any of the other outputs the signal is digital or upscaled. Where can I get what I need or instructions on assembling what I need. Thanks for your anticipated help. Bill

 

[Matthias99]

You need a display that supports DVI with HDCP, generally, to view copy-protected output from an upsampling STB or DVD player on a digital connection. RGB and component are not copy-protected, so you cannot output digital copies of copy-protected programs on those connections. If you do not have an HDCP-compatiable DVI input on your LCD, you would have to use coax/composite/S-Video (which are analog connections). You can thank the MPAA and the DMCA for all this crap (not that it's stemmed piracy in the least...)

 

[billnrhodes]

I goofed up. My LCD monitoer has a 15 pin input as does the HD box. Does anyone know if it will work going from the DVI and converting the connector to the 15 pin RGB?

 

[Matthias99]

You can't convert DVI-D to VGA. "DVI to VGA" adapters are for DVI-I connections, which carry an analog VGA copy of the signal parallel to the digital DVI one. You really can't watch copy-protected HD feeds over VGA -- no HDCP-compliant hardware will let you. It *might* work if you output at 480i or 480p.