Battleangel

After realizing that your brand new monitor most likely isn’t going to work with HDCP (in Windows Vista most likely), Firingsquad can reveal that not only will your new graphics card obviously not work either, Nvidia and ATI haven’t even started adding the feature to their product line. Even worse than that, manufacturers have fraudulently claimed HDCP support for years, apparently without checking the white papers and realizing it’s a hardware thing. And if they did realize, as they surely must have, they just postponed the issue, hoping that Vista would be so graphically demanding that most users would have to upgrade anew.

Bottom line, HD-DVD or Blu-Ray discs most likely wont sell very well. Most of us can’t get anything extra out of them anyway as our outdated TVs or monitors just wont do them justice. And crap like this surely wont make the deal any better. I’ll keep downloading my movies, thank you very much. And as for those still needing to play HD content, I’m sure there’ll be some sort of patch when the time comes that can kill the player firmware (like RPC) and disable whatever measures the OS takes to protect the data. A HDCP graphics card may just make that all the more difficult. The real issue is going to be having a GPU or a fast enough CPU that can handle H.264 decoding.