ATI Makes False Claims on HDCP Support

[Tec]

Last week Firing Squad published an article about the current state of HDCP support in graphics cards. The article touched on several topics, such as what is HDCP, what cards currently shipping supported HDCP, and why were cards being advertised as being HDCP ready, were in actually not ready at all. This was the case for every manufacturer, regardless of ATI and NVIDIA GPUs.

Most of ATI's recent retail products are currently shipping with advertisements claiming that the products are HDCP-ready. On ATI's website, the term HDCP-ready was also used, for example on the X1900 series specifications page. Curiously, ATI's professional products such as FireGL list "HDCP-compliant".

After numerous emails and contact attempts by respected sites and users what happens ? Ati silently removes any references to HDCP-ready on its consumer products. But obviously that doesn’t stop all the other online stores who copy & paste product descriptions from Ati’s very own product page. So how are they gonna get rid off them god knows.

Read the full article at DailyTech

 

[JN]

Naughty, Naughty, Veeery Naughty.....

 

[FarFarAway]

Ahahaha haaaa

Yes indeed...but I bought mine knowing this.

Screw it I'll almost certainly have a new card by Vista

 

[FragTek]

Vista Schmista... Gonna be the worst OS of all time. I might check out Vista Server, but I'm not going with the stnadard edition, noooo sir.

 

[JN]

Vista Schmista... Gonna be the worst OS of all time. I might[/I'] check out Vista Server, but I'm not going with the stnadard edition, noooo sir.

U still rocking teh suse?

 

[FragTek]

Nah, won't run in my native res and the next higer res squishes it too much, looks fugly.

Once they support my native res then I'll rock it, I had everything else setup too. Got Cedega working and games played smooth as silk

 

[Eguy]

Hah typical GAYTI :rollingla

 

[FragTek]

Wirelessly posted (Nextel BB7520: BlackBerry7520/4.0.2 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1)

When the hell is Vista slated for official release anyhow?

Does MS have any documentation stating a new server platform? I'll be most interested in that if they release it.

 

[Tec]

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When the hell is Vista slated for official release anyhow?

Does MS have any documentation stating a new server platform? I'll be most interested in that if they release it.

I believe it will be released around late September or December. If you look at ms windows server roadmap windows longhorn server which will be called windows server 2007 its due to release around Q1 2007 and server products usually gets released 90 to 120 days after main release which puts vista release around September/December.

As for the server futures it will probably be based best of windows server 2003 SP1 and SP2 with added ;

• Next-generation application platform, including updates to the IIS process model, and inclusion of the Windows Communication Foundation infrastructure (previously code-named "Indigo").
  
• Manageability from the ground up, such as integrated management of IIS, ASP.NET and WCF; and role-based deployment that reduces maintenance and attack surface
  
• New hardware and standards support, such as dynamic partitioning for Windows "mainframes" and support for PCI Express.
  

Havent seen any proper documentation yet and i doubt it will be unless it leaks to underworld at least not until Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta 2 released.

 

[FragTek]

Good stuff, thx for the research Tec... Reps headed your way.

I think i'm going to completely avoid Vista until I can get my hands on a retail release of Server 2k7 which undoubtedly should be much better than Vista.

 

[JN]

Good stuff, thx for the research Tec... Reps headed your way.

I think i'm going to completely avoid Vista until I can get my hands on a retail release of Server 2k7 which undoubtedly should be much better than Vista.

Yeah i'm gonna hold out for the de-twatified server version too

 

[FragTek]

Yeah i'm gonna hold out for the de-twatified server version too

I'll drink to that! :all_cohol

I've found Win2k3 to be soooooooooooo much better than XP... It never random crashes on me for no apparent reason, it's about 3x faster, and doesn't have any of the useless chotch that M$ integrates in to XP.

Viva la 2k3!

 

[Tec]

Well XP's code is based on NT which came out around 1990 and Win2k3 is a newer code which has the best of the best in ms windows league

 

[Trippledence]

I think Vista should be a new skin for windows ME then we could all hate it and be right about it.

 

[FragTek]

rofl vista will be bad enough on its own, no need to skin ME which was another MS titanic

 

[WC Annihilus]

Interesting, we now have ATI's response to these accusations. Apparently, the x1000 family is HDCP ready only at the GPU level. The support is built into the chips yet not activated. The GPU's can be used to make true HDCP-ready products.

Link: ATI's response at DailyTech

 

[FragTek]

Meh they're still a bunch of lying wankers. They made it sound like the current cards were HDCP ready. Oh wells...

 

[WC Annihilus]

Hmm, the first true HDMI-HDCP card is here...

Link: First HDMI-HDCP card at DailyTech

 

[FragTek]

Soooo, what's that cards purpose? I don't see cable inputs or anything so it's not a tb tuner card, and it obviously not big enough to be a gaming card... Just a low-end workstation card with an HDMI interface?

 

[Tec]

Well it has HDMI connection ( hence the protection ) and we ll probably see HDMI > DVI converters ( cables / dongles ) to use them and probably LCD Tvs or perhaps monitors that comes with HDMI connecters.