Does Vista support your monitor?

[Puffnstuff]

Now I'm discovering that vista doesn't have native support for my planar monitor. If you want to know if yours is supported you can follow the link. http://whql.microsoft.com/HCL/ProductList.aspx?cid=600

 

[Shawn]

If the monitor is plug and play I don't see why it wouldn't work.

 

[sonoma1993]

i checked that out, it said my viewsonic A90f+ is compatible. Some of the other viewsonics monitors on that site was listed as basic and premium. I wonder what the difference is? How can one monitor be x86 basic compatibility while another one is x86 premium compatibility?

 

[BillClo]

Also note that there is a difference between Vista supporting the monitor and the DRM scheme insisting upon HDCP compliant video, sound, and monitor to play back High Def media...your monitor could be Vista compliant but not MPAA compliant.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: BillClo
Also note that there is a difference between Vista supporting the monitor and the DRM scheme insisting upon HDCP compliant video, sound, and monitor to play back High Def media...your monitor could be Vista compliant but not MPAA compliant.

HDCP came out fairly recently. There is no way Microsoft is going to force everybody to buy a new monitor that supports it.

 

[BillClo]

What I mean is that even if the monitor is supported by Vista, that it's possible it doesn't have the required by the MPAA/record industry HDCP input, or that either the video card or sound card aren't HDCP compliant even if the monitor is. It's not Vista's fault per se if the monitor is supported for display, but the MPAA has set more stringent restrictions on how you can watch their precious High-def content...

But you'd still be outta luck.

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: BillClo
What I mean is that even if the monitor is supported by Vista, that it's possible it doesn't have the required by the MPAA/record industry HDCP input, or that either the video card or sound card aren't HDCP compliant even if the monitor is. It's not Vista's fault per se if the monitor is supported for display, but the MPAA has set more stringent restrictions on how you can watch their precious High-def content...

But you'd still be outta luck.

This doesn't apply to all hi-def media, but only media that is flagged as requiring a protected media path. If the media isn't flagged, Vista doesn't force a protected path, and doesn't devote any resources to it.

 

[BillClo]

Okay. I was under the possibly mistaken impression that all High-def media was automatically flagged that way. How would one find out either way, short of buying a movie to see if it requires HDCP or not?

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: BillClo
Okay. I was under the possibly mistaken impression that all High-def media was automatically flagged that way. How would one find out either way, short of buying a movie to see if it requires HDCP or not?

I imagine the content producers will have to label the boxes, or they would get a boatload of returns.

 

[BillClo]

I expect so. Are current HD movies marked that way or is "try and see, but you can't return it to the store if it doesn't work"?

 

[Aluvus]

AFAIK nothing currently on the market requires HDCP. And won't for some time.