Re: Questions on how to connect computer to TV

On Apr 29, 8:16=A0am, phil-news-nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
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 > |
 > | DVI is not the best because you don't get to see the entire
booting of
 > | the computer. This is not a problem unless there is a problem.
 > | With DVI, at least under Windows, the image doesn't start showing
on the
 > | TV until the driver is started, and this doesn't seem to occur
until
 > | Windows has pretty much started up.
 >
 > Interesting. =A0On my computer, I get to see the system booting up
through DVI
 > just fine, right from the BIOS. =A0Maybe it's because I have Linux
installed?
 > Of course that would make no sense since it's an issue before the
OS even
 > gets started. =A0Maybe a bad TV that can't do computer displays
correctly?
 > Not only is this plausible, it is known to exist. =A0The only
question in my
 > mind is whether that is a problem due to incompetent engineers or
incompetent
 > managers. =A0Unfortunately, both are in great abundance.
 >
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My computer also works fine through the entire boot sequence including
setting BIOS options. It's not Linux related for 2 reasons. 1: No OS
is running yet at boot time and 2: mine works and it's Win XP with no
Linux at all -- though I should get around to changing that.

As fot the BluRay on an older AGP machine, would VLC player or
something like that just ignore HDCP and show the pictures ? Somebody
somewhere must be concocting "BluRay Shrink".

GG