# HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, HDCP, DRM and You... **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [February 18, 2006, 7:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hd-dvd-blu-ray-hdcp-drm-and-you/8307 "2006-02-18T07:45:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RuBiCaNT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rubicant/32/7622_2.png) [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 7:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hd-dvd-blu-ray-hdcp-drm-and-you/8307/1 "2006-02-18T07:45:08Z")
Many of you may know or not know the new standard for high definition video with HD-DVD and Blu-Ray technology. Fact 1: NO ONE can view this stuff with your current video card no matter how new it is. **As part of the Windows-Vista Ready Monitor article, I was going to publish a list of all of the graphics cards that currently support HDCP. I mean, I remember GPUs dating as far back as the Radeon 8500 that had boasted of HDCP support.** Turns out, we were all deceived. **After some investigation, Brandon and I determined that there is no shipping retail add-in board with HDCP decoding keys. Simply put, none of the AGP or PCI-E graphics cards that you can buy today support HDCP.** Fact 2: Non compliant equipment (monitors and video cards) will only show 25% of the picture. Pixel density and resolution will significantly drop to somewhere along the lines of 640x480 as opposed to 1980x1080, etc… It’s a good read for sure… [http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati\_nvidia\_hdcp\_support/default.asp](http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_nvidia_hdcp_support/default.asp)