Blu-Ray with older DVI?

Shane Morales · 02-18-2008, 12:49 PM

I'll apologize beforehand because this has to have been asked already, but my searches didn't come up with anything.

I have a Samsung 56" DLP from 2002 that has a DVI input. I'm thinking about getting a blu-ray player, but I'm not sure if it will work with my TV, at least through the DVI input. I'm guessing it won't because the DVI on my TV is almost certainly not compliant with the copy protection stuff.

I was told about a little gizmo called HD Fury that will allegedly take HDMI video and port out an analog signal. Should I be using something like that if a digital option is not available to me?

Man, I really don't want to have to buy a new TV.

JeremyErwin · 02-18-2008, 04:14 PM

Check the manual or back panel for any mention of DVI-HDCP. In any case, unless you have your heart set on the all digital denon, you could always use HD component video.

(The model number would be helpful, here.)

Shane Morales · 02-18-2008, 04:49 PM

Oh yeah... model number. Kinda missed that. [smacks forehead]

It's an HLN56W w/ 2nd gen DLP.

Incidentally, I just did a google search for that model number to do a visual check and google returned a long dead thread on this very forum where I once answered a post about that particular TV. In that thread I provided a link to an online manual and slap me and call me Susan if the manual doesn't say the DVI connection is HDCP compliant. It does! That's gotta be some kinda weird fate where I provide myself an answer in 2003 to a question I ask in 2008.

Long dead thread.

Link to manual

So I guess I'm safe. Woot! Right?

JeremyErwin · 02-18-2008, 05:03 PM

Should work, then, though unfortunately many of the early DVI-HDCP devices were plagued with handshaking issues. Putting an HDMI receiver in the mix might be tempting fate.

Shane Morales · 02-18-2008, 05:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JeremyErwin

Putting an HDMI receiver in the mix might be tempting fate.

As well as unspeakable horrors at the hands of my wife.

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Shane Morales · 02-20-2008, 10:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JeremyErwin

Should work, then, though unfortunately many of the early DVI-HDCP devices were plagued with handshaking issues.

Handshaking? As in, communicating?

JeremyErwin · 02-20-2008, 10:49 AM

Sorry, handshaking is a technical term for "exchanging cryptographic keys". It's a prelude to communication, since almost all data over HDMI is transmitted in encrypted form.

Carlo Medina · 02-20-2008, 12:22 PM

Just to add my own anecdotal experience: my PS3 played nice with a 3 year old Westinghouse 32" LCD TV with DVI-HDCP (using an HDMI to DVI cable).

I've since bought a new living room set with HDCP, but I don't recall ever having any issues with the bedroom set.

adrman · 02-25-2008, 09:40 AM

The dvi on the hln should be fine. I haven't had any handshake issues with mine. Currently, I've it's connected to a Marantz 4001 that switches between a PS3 and a Toshiba HDA35.

Shane Morales · 02-25-2008, 09:58 AM

Great, thanks for the input, but there will be no blu-ray player for me any time soon. I spent the money on a Fender Stratocaster instead.