[slyaces]

Firstly, this will probably sound very samey! So Sorry!

Payday is coming up and been thinking about getting an Xbox 360 HD-DVD Drive, cheap as chips and HD-DVDs £2.99 from HMV. Bargin

Right, I have an 8800GT, so thats HDCP. But my 19" Monitor is not, it has DVI and VGA, will either of these work. And what resolution will I get??

Not normally a poster, but spent a good few hours trying to accumulate all the info, and cant find anything concrete!

Cheers
S

[pjclark1]

anydvd hd will sort out any problems with HDCP
it is downloadable with a 30 day free trial

[korny]

I have the XBOX HD-DVD drive plugged into my 2 year old laptop and it works great. Definitely worth it for the cheap prices and the cheap HD-DVDs now.

As pjclark1 states AnyDVD HD allows the HDCP to be bypassed.

I would check what resolution your 19" monitor supports to see if it can take the full HD 1080p resolution as this would better for watching them.

[cjed]

Originally Posted by slyaces

Firstly, this will probably sound very samey! So Sorry!

Payday is coming up and been thinking about getting an Xbox 360 HD-DVD Drive, cheap as chips and HD-DVDs £2.99 from HMV. Bargin

Right, I have an 8800GT, so thats HDCP. But my 19" Monitor is not, it has DVI and VGA, will either of these work. And what resolution will I get??

Not normally a poster, but spent a good few hours trying to accumulate all the info, and cant find anything concrete!

Cheers
S

You'll also need some software to play the HD-DVDs. If you already have Nero V8 software for CD/DVD burning there's a Blu-ray/HD-DVD add on for that that's quite cheap (< £20). Otherwise you need either Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra V7.3 (V8 no longer supports HD-DVD), Intervideo WinDVD 9 Plus or Arcsoft Totalmedia Theatre (my choice).

Standard 19" monitors don't support the full 1920 x 1080 resolution of HD-DVD, whatever player software you use will downscale to suit your monitor.

As has already been mentioned, you might need AnyDVD-HD to get around the lack of HDCP on your monitor, however, as your graphics card *is* HDCP and if you use DVI to the monitor you might not need it (I don't on my system, which also has an non-HDCP monitor).

[slyaces]

Cheers guys! Exactly what i was after, just wondering! Since I dont have 1080p res, will it downscale to 1440x900 or to 720p like the tvs 1360x768 (i think)

Thanks again.

[cjed]

Originally Posted by slyaces

Cheers guys! Exactly what i was after, just wondering! Since I dont have 1080p res, will it downscale to 1440x900 or to 720p like the tvs 1360x768 (i think)

Thanks again.

The player software will downscale to 1440 x 810 (assuming 1440 x 900 is your monitors native resolution).

[Praxidike]

Originally Posted by pjclark1

anydvd hd will sort out any problems with HDCP
it is downloadable with a 30 day free trial

Or you could use VGA and HDCP compliancy wouldn't be necessary.

[slyaces]

I did think that about the vga cable. Think I might run that, i like to limit the amount of software i have on the pc, try keep it clean.

But, any difference between vga and dvi. From what I have seen no, but is this different when watching HD.

Cheers

[Praxidike]

Originally Posted by slyaces

I did think that about the vga cable. Think I might run that, i like to limit the amount of software i have on the pc, try keep it clean.

But, any difference between vga and dvi. From what I have seen no, but is this different when watching HD.

Cheers

I have 2 identical monitors, but only got round to buying one DVI cable, so one is run through VGA (via a DVI-VGA adapter), and I really can't tell a difference. I usually look out for imperfections in things like this, and only expected to have to use VGA temporarily until I bought another DVI cable, but haven't got round to it, I just don't need to.

Although it may depend on the monitors and cables that you use.