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Are all GeForce 8800 GTS Graphics Cards HDCP Comaptible?
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Although I can't give a definitive answer, I am pretty sure if this is a feature on one you have looked at? then it would follow all will have the same feature set.
The 8800GTS is very high end and cutting edge, if one has it all will, I'm sure.
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The 8800GTS is very high end and cutting edge, if one has it all will, I'm sure.
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Yeah I think I'll be buying a PC in the summer (I bought a 24" monitor for my laptop, but it turned out to be crap - flickery text which I still don't know the cause of and the laptop couldn't handle displaying video at full screen anymore - so I sent it back, but I think I'll be getting one in the summer along with a new PC), and I want a DirectX 10 Graphics Card really.
I saw a few 8800s on eBuyer but only some mention HDCP - but then again a few review websites say all low end 8800s are all the same really, so I don't know whether it's just an oversight or whether really only some of them have HDCP.
I saw a few 8800s on eBuyer but only some mention HDCP - but then again a few review websites say all low end 8800s are all the same really, so I don't know whether it's just an oversight or whether really only some of them have HDCP.
Nelviticus
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If you definitely want HDCP then make sure you confirm that a card has it before you buy it. I don't know whether they all do but it can't hurt to double-check.
I suspect that any manufacturer who wants to include HDCP functionality in their equipment has to pay a small licensing fee to the HDCP consortium (or whatever they're called), so even though all 8800s may have the same hardware they may not all have HDCP-enabled output. But that's just my guess!
Note that it will be academic anyway for the next year or two. Eventually high-def content that has the right encryption 'flag' set will be down-scaled to standard def if the player, graphics card and monitor aren't all HDCP-certified, but I'm sure I read somewhere that no content has that flag set at the moment, and none will for a while.
Actually I've just checked Wikipedia and I was right about the licensing - read more here:
And here's a page which states that the 'downscale is not compliant' flag won't be set on any content until 2012:
Regards
Nelviticus
I suspect that any manufacturer who wants to include HDCP functionality in their equipment has to pay a small licensing fee to the HDCP consortium (or whatever they're called), so even though all 8800s may have the same hardware they may not all have HDCP-enabled output. But that's just my guess!
Note that it will be academic anyway for the next year or two. Eventually high-def content that has the right encryption 'flag' set will be down-scaled to standard def if the player, graphics card and monitor aren't all HDCP-certified, but I'm sure I read somewhere that no content has that flag set at the moment, and none will for a while.
Actually I've just checked Wikipedia and I was right about the licensing - read more here:
And here's a page which states that the 'downscale is not compliant' flag won't be set on any content until 2012:
Regards
Nelviticus
An explaination of what HDCP stands for:
A link to a list of HDCP compliant graphics cards:
Might be useful?
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A link to a list of HDCP compliant graphics cards:
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