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Old 25th October 2007, 15:59   #415  |  Link
madshi
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Originally Posted by honai View Post
For example, video cards with nVidia chips that provide HDMI 1.3, i.e. a/v transport over HDMI. These have a protected BIOS (using public/private key cryptography), and only players signed against that BIOS will be able to send HD audio/video over the HDMI connection.
Do you have a link? I think you have that backwards. It would be a big step down for any nVidia card user if people couldn't even output unprotected movies over HDMI (and that's what you're claiming). E.g. all the Microsoft VC-1 demos you can download from Microsoft's homepage wouldn't play. No recorded HDTV broadcast would play. That simply cannot be true.

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