Blu-Ray on new machine and Asus VW246H monitor - Whoops?

[EwanG]

Just finished building my "ideal" machine, and in addition to the i7, 12 Gigs of RAM, 2 Radeon HD 4870 cards with CrossfireX, and two HDs (one 80 GB for OS, one 1TB for data) I added an LG Blu-Ray Drive and an Asus VW 246H monitor.

When I run the Cyberlink advisor software that came with the LG drive, it claims I won't be able to playback a Blu-Ray disc because I don't have an HDCP monitor. So I haven't gone out and bought anything yet because I'm worried it's correct. Is this a false negative? Is there an easy/cheap fix? Or am I SOL?

Thanks in advance,
Ewan

[poisondeathray]

How is it connected? HDMI ? everything has to be HDCP compliant in the chain of connections

[EwanG]

Yes, it's connected via HDMI although it also has a DVI port, though I understood that wasn't as "desirable", and it has a VGA port too.

[neomaine]

Well, if you're running XP, then its 8.5gb wasted RAM. If its Vista, probably only 8gb wasted.... Really why so much RAM? And comparatively, so little drive space? What could you be doing that would be so RAM intensive that you wouldn't need a second hard drive to segregate the read/write? And, 2x 4870s? Must be looking for some heavy FPS in some newer games... If it was for HTPC, way way overkill.... anyway, your dollars...

For the monitor with lack of HDCP, purchase AnyDVD HD. Not sure what the current price is, and I haven't used it for this purpose, but it should disable the checking of HDCP when playing BR discs on your PC.

[EwanG]

Well, if you're running XP, then its 8.5gb wasted RAM. If its Vista, probably only 8gb wasted.... Really why so much RAM?

Running Vista Ultimate 64 which uses 12 gigs just fine. The 12 gigs is because the i7 uses DDR3 rather than DDR2, so you like to have the same amount of RAM for each channel.

And comparatively, so little drive space? What could you be doing that would be so RAM intensive that you wouldn't need a second hard drive to segregate the read/write?

To clarify, I have an 80 Gig HD AND a 1 TB HD. Idea is that your cache is on the smaller drive (which since it's smaller the heads can get where they are going faster), and then the data and work are done on the big HD. I also have an external 1 TB HD and two 1TB NAS devices - but wasn't including them since they aren't part of the system.

And, 2x 4870s? Must be looking for some heavy FPS in some newer games... If it was for HTPC, way way overkill.... anyway, your dollars...

Actually I do game programming (more at my site - EGAWorks), and most of the newer 3D packages support the multi-core, and you want the fast video so you can do your preview renders quickly. The HTPC is just a nice side feature.

For the monitor with lack of HDCP, purchase AnyDVD HD. Not sure what the current price is, and I haven't used it for this purpose, but it should disable the checking of HDCP when playing BR discs on your PC.

Will give it a look see. Thanks!

[neomaine]

Wow, someone who actually can use the hardware they've setup. Sorry, that's rare around here...

[svenknitter]

I was about to purchase an ASUS VW246H until I saw this. According to the ASUS site this monitor has HDCP support. Does it not? Can anyone recommend a similarly priced 24 inch monitor with HDCP support?