Originally posted by: BladeVenom
I thought every part of the system from player to monitor had to have HDCP to guarantee future compatibility.
Someday, disks will likely use the ICT flag to require downsampling to 960x540 before outputing over an analog connection, but that isn't an issue until disks start using it, the movies avalable now aren't bound by any such restriction.
Originally posted by: Slugbait
As I have understood, your video card doesn't offer dual-link HDCP decryption, and therefore will not produce 1080p on your computer monitor from HDCP-compliant discs.
All commercial Blu-ray and HD DVD disks require HDCP for digital video connections, you won't get any video at all if your videocard or monitor does not support HDCP. However, decryption is handled by the monitor while the videocard handles the encryption, and 1080p only requires a single link connection anyway.
Originally posted by: madh83
You actually do need to have compliant cables, because eventually they'll only release blu-rays that will play 1080p over equipment that's HDCP compliant. HDMI cables should all be compliant, I think you need to check on dvi to hdmi cables because some are and some are not. Personally, I buy cables from monoprice.com
There is no such thing as digital video cables that don't support HDCP, any DVI to HDMI cable will work as long as both the videocard and the display support HDCP. But yeah, monoprice sells nice cables at great prices.