I am trying to hook up my PS3 to a PC monitor (a 20" ViewSonic VA2012wb). The monitor has a DVI input (no HDCP support), so I got a HDMI to DVI cable. I get no picture at all. The monitor says "no signal". This is when I boot up the PS3 - I am not trying to play a game or watch a movie at this stage.
I've been trying to find info about this on the net. Some people claim that everything coming out of the PS3's HDMI output requires HDCP, where as others says that perhaps in the future there might be problem watching movies and those movies will be downscaled to 480p if the display doesn't support HDCP.
So my question is: has anyone managed to connect their PC3 to a monitor with a DVI cable? Any magic tricks?
Short answer: no way, upgrade the display or use an analog cable
Long answer: There are hardware solutions but they are expensive, i cant remember which ps3 board I was on but there is a hardware video converter that exists that "forgets" to put back in the HDCP bullshit on the DVI stream... it's around $800 iirc
yep your stuffed . Strange that sony put out a linux OS that cannot be
displayed on practically all computer monitors. It gets worse, the hd tv
screens don't fit nicely on your computer desk as they are TVs to be placed
in living rooms. I work with VNC, you can run gui menu type appliactions if you
know their comand line invocation. so you don't have do startx. But this of course
misses out on 95 per cent of linux applications. I'm reasonably happy as I'm just
after cell sdk learning for those spus.
Search on hdcp strippers. These are hardware dongles that incorporate
or mimic (once the secret keys are compremised) the hdcp chips that do the
authentication protocol from hdcp player to reciever (display).
Beware the claims that many digital high def signal convertors/splitters box
vendors may fix your problem. You have to have specificaly the hdcp protocol.
I'm waiting for developments with something called HDfury. There should soon
be a recognised market for such dongles.
DVI w/o HDCP
