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Old 02-14-2008   #6 (permalink)
ktriebol
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Re: HDMI from HD set top box to Media Center - possible?

That sure looks like it would give you an HDMI input (actually two of them) on your computer. I noticed that there was no definite information regarding whether or not this card supports HDCP. This is very important. All of the video-handling devices from the source to the monitor should support HDCP. If they don't support HDCP you will have all kinds of problems with successful handling of video. If you want to learn more about HDCP, you could start with this link at wikipedia.
High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The good news is that almost all new computer video components support HDCP, so my guess is that this card supports HDCP also, but I would want to be sure of that before I bought it.
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