Some months ago i bought a new Sapphire X1600 Graphic Card (ATI), a HDMI cable and an Adapter for DVI to HDMI so i could connect my Beamer to the Card through HDMI.
Both, Beamer and Graphic Card can HDTV so why don't use it.. that were my thoughts... but in reality nothing works as expected. All i was able to get is 800x600 and that's not funny.
So i first asked ATI (in the Support Ticket function which registration is a hard try itself) and they told me (after some typiing) to ask the Beamer manufacturer.
Ok i asked Panasonic (since i have a PT AE 700) how i can resolve this and they told me the Beamer can HDTV but only with HDCP and therefore the Card has to be HDCP compliant.
Good argument, i thought so i went back to ATI who returned: The Cards are not HDCP compliant... *grrr*
Ok, looked again at Sapphire's site and voila there is some misterous sentence which does not really say it can HDCP but it also does not say it can't... so i asked Sapphire about it.
They told me that the ASIC (chipset) is compliant but the firmware not and i have to asked another company about it... ?? what the heck??
Ok, let's just asked for fun how it is going to end:
I asked if there is a way for a standard user (please without soldering gun) to update the firmware and the first reaction was that sapphire lacks of the licence and they will ask them if they want to buy it first...
?What?? I don't quite understand.. but then i got another answer:
I checked with HKG and they said that to-date the drivers are still not yet compliant. Hopefully future drivers will resolve, we have been promised for over a year now.Now i had to laugh since HDCP is the reason for the movie companies to use HDTV and therefore every peace of equipment has to be HDCP compliant.. all but not the graphic cards..
One more note: ATI told me that the only product they have released so far which is HDCP compliant is the X1950 series cards.. (do they have got the new firmware?)
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