Thread: HD Monitors?

ive just got myself a little screen, and it states that:

The 16:10 wide-screen aspect ratio provides more productive space for multiple windows, HD-format video and immersive gaming action.

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/....tml?VIE-VA1912

im lost with the hole HD thing, will i be able to plug in a say blue ray drive or HD DVD drive and watch perfect hd video?

are all monitors like this? or are they telling customers a load of old B******t

i take it everyones in the dark ages with me then? lol

HD Ready just means that your monitor can display the minimum 1280 x 720 pixels required for HD.

How you get the picture onto the PC in the first place is a very different matter from whether the screen can support "HD" or not.

Microsoft have some HD movie samples you can download....

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...tshowcase.aspx

So... basically by stating that the monitor can display "HD-format video" it's really just a marketing thing as most LCD monitors sold these days can display HD.

i see cheers for that :-)

Most films released (AIUI) will use HDCP copy protection, so the screen would also have to support that to permit playback.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/05...yers_guide_uk/

so a standard LCD screen wouldnt be able to support it?

They can, but the reader device will have to support HDMI and HDCP.

When inside one device (i.e. a PC) this isn't really a problem. HDCP is designed so that you can just stick a VCR or DVD-R on the cable between the DVD player and the TV so you can copy the content.

My understanding was that if the content is HDCP protected, then you need a graphics card capable out outputting an HDCP signal and a monitor that supports it - else that negates the whole point of having it.

There are two internal definitions according to the spec (and coincidently the recipe for how to break HDCP) for internal and external renditions.

If you have, for example, an HDMI/HDCP compliant DualLink DVI graphics card it _may_ use the Internal rendition spec which ensures that to the DVI socket is secured. DVI cannot carry audio and runs at far different rates and resolutions to either HD-DVD or BluRay. However if you output to an HDMI socket this is external rendition and therefore still crypted. The original "cause" of the rendition argument was MS and called for seperate handling of XP-MC as it was an integrated device and didn't want to have to change the DVI connection for the monitor to an internal HDMI cable and have specialist cards and drivers.

So Karl, yes you are right in theory but there are other cases namely DVI where the true HDCP spec isn't adhered to.

And that's why we don't need Google any more