Hitting the fan part 2 « The Blog for the Sports Gamer

16Feb/114

Hitting the fan part 2

Well the TV tech came out (a day late) and says he will have to buy a video board - HELLO I told you that on the phone! The problem is that the board is not made any more so I have to buy a used board and who knows how long that will last. So I took Dan's advise. Now me taking Dan's advise is not usually a good idea, but I think he might be right with this one. I bought an HDMI to DVI adapter and am just using the DVI input. I don't push sound to the TV anyway, so I really shouldn't be loosing anything.

For my son's PC, I'm building him a middle of the road machine. Nothing special. He's in 10th grade, so I figure 2 years from now he'll need a new high powered laptop anyway. This machine should last until then.

We took the car to the dealer and they replaced the head gasket. There is still a leak in the engine. So we are getting a brand new engine installed. They had to order it so we will not get the car back until next week, but I really can't complain about paying $50 deductibleto get a new engine at 88K miles. Thank God I got the extended warranty. I don't recommend them for any items other than car or house, but I'm glad I got it.

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msbonik
February 17th, 2011 - 03:20

Only problem with that adapter is that DVI doesn’t support HDCP. So it depends what you’re connecting to.
Craig
February 17th, 2011 - 07:54

I thought DVI did support HDCP. While I know you can’t always trust wikipedia, this article says that DVI does. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection

Either way, I know the video from my 360 which is used as a Media Center Extender is working fine. I have not tested my bluray yet.
Glen
February 17th, 2011 - 09:28

I did run into an issue with Netflix and DVI a while back, or at least I thought it was Netflix.

HDCP is annoying for that reason alone.
msbonik
February 17th, 2011 - 13:22

Hehe and on the wiki DVI page it says only partially compatible with HDCP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface

HDMI just says that the sending and receiving device have to support it.
http://www.hdmi.org/learningcenter/faq.aspx#31