Last night, my installer came by to do the final tweaking on my new Dwin TV3. I told him that I was looking to build an HTPC with DVI output to take advantage of the new developments in HDTV and WM9 HD DVDs (or whatever else comes down the line).
He warned me that because the Dwin scaler was HDCP compliant, the video card I was using must also be HDCP compliant or the two would not work together.
This seems like a flawed concept and I'm not sure that it's right. In my mind, it's the video source (e.g., the DVD player or HDTV STB) that would refuse to output its signal to a non-HDCP compliant display device or processor (e.g., the Dwin TV3 scaler) but I can't understand why a display device would refuse to accept a signal from a source that didn't do HDCP.
Is he right?? (If yes, are there video cards that are HDCP compliant?)
He warned me that because the Dwin scaler was HDCP compliant, the video card I was using must also be HDCP compliant or the two would not work together.
This seems like a flawed concept and I'm not sure that it's right. In my mind, it's the video source (e.g., the DVD player or HDTV STB) that would refuse to output its signal to a non-HDCP compliant display device or processor (e.g., the Dwin TV3 scaler) but I can't understand why a display device would refuse to accept a signal from a source that didn't do HDCP.
Is he right?? (If yes, are there video cards that are HDCP compliant?)