Comments on: HDMI why did I fear you?

By: Chris Hubick

Chris Hubick — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:44:30 +0000

Since someone said VLC could play the official stream ( http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1098059&cid=26529149 ), I tried it and it worked in Totem

By: daniels

daniels — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:47:50 +0000

Just a shame you were using some rubbish proprietary driver.

By: xyzzy

xyzzy — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:13:24 +0000

I watched Family Guy instead. Considerably more entertaining, and certainly more profound.

By: Jon Smirl

Jon Smirl — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:59:57 +0000

HDMI is backwards compatible with DVI. Your PC is generating a signal without HDCP (copy protection). DVI to HDMI cables are passive, they work in both directions. Try to take the output from a cable box and hook it up to a DVI monitor. It won’t work. You’ll get a nice screen saying copy protection handshake failed. It’s the HDCP copy protection that ruins things like MythTV.

Note that if the DVI monitor works it has a HDCP compliant chipset in it. Hobbyists and small companies are shut out of the licensing for the HDCP scheme. HDCP is why you are pretty much forced to rent your DVR from the cable company. AFAIK Tivo is the only independent HDCP capable DVR and they cost $600.

By: Hans Rödtang

Hans Rödtang — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:09:06 +0000

I had a similir experience, I was setting of trying to connect my laptop to my TV via HDMI because I was afraid it would fail horribly. Luckily it didn’t. in fact it worked perfect.

Now I can enjoy playing Super Mario 64 with mupen64plus on my 40″ TV ^^