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Originally Posted by paul.hugill
Hi Kovacevic,
HDCP is a type of encryption used to transmit Hi-Def Video and can be used either over DVI or HDMI.
If you have a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD drive in your computer, in theory you would need to have a monitor and graphics card that support HDCP, but you can get some software called AnyDVD that would allow you to use any monitor even if it does not support HDCP.
You can use a HDMI/DVI adapter to connect devices with different connections without any problems as far as I am aware but you would not get the sound over the HDMI cable like you would normally.
If you want best compatability then you should get a things that are HDCP compatible but AnyDVD does work so that is an option and I have not had any problems with it.
Paul
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Thanks Paul, at last someone replied to this thread!
I managed to find and get an HDCP supported monitor, specifically the Samsung SyncMaster T200HD which has HDMI inputs as well compared to the older T200 having DVI only. For the sound, I don't care much because I have external speakers. So no major worries so far.
However I could only find out that the HDCP is supported only with the DVI port on the monitor. I'm gonna try using the HDMI port later on to see if it works also.
