Brian, I would tend to agree with you, but my TV does support HDCP and the adaptor I am using works fine with another HDCP STB's.
I called and talked to a very knowledgeable technician at MovieBeam. He told me that they require HDMI. I asked him why DVI with HDCP wasn't enoough and he explained that it had something to do with the chipset they were using, it actually checks for HDMI and if it sees a HDMI-DVI adaptor it will not allow HD content despite being HDCP compliant.
Feel free to call MovieBeam Tech support ask for David G., he will be happy to explain it to you.
I do know that HDMI supports additional standards above and beyond what DVI supports, but I don't think this is anything more than poor hardware support.
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Ben Drawbaugh @ Mar 15th 2006 1:50PM
Brian,
I would tend to agree with you, but my TV does support HDCP and the adaptor I am using works fine with another HDCP STB's.
I called and talked to a very knowledgeable technician at MovieBeam. He told me that they require HDMI. I asked him why DVI with HDCP wasn't enoough and he explained that it had something to do with the chipset they were using, it actually checks for HDMI and if it sees a HDMI-DVI adaptor it will not allow HD content despite being HDCP compliant.
Feel free to call MovieBeam Tech support ask for David G., he will be happy to explain it to you.
I do know that HDMI supports additional standards above and beyond what DVI supports, but I don't think this is anything more than poor hardware support.