mpatnode wrote: Now I’m

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Now I’m aware of the well-known 0-255 vs 16-235 issue on the HD 3/4000 chips, but was willing to live with that until they fixed it.  

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We discussed this at CES w/ some of the GPU people. Hopefully something happens w/ it.

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Unfortunately, if you boot the machine with both the DVI and HDMI connections plugged in (doesn’t matter whether they are active or not) the video driver decides you are violating HDCP and you’ll be greated with the dreaded “Display Driver Error: The video playback device does not support playback of protected content.”

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When you check the sound properties control panel does it report that HDCP is supported or not?

There are work around to this (HDMI splitter comes to mind).

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What if you wanted to run your media center UI on the second screen, and see the video on the first?

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If I understand what you’re saying I don’t think WMC supports that.

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So this is obviously broken, and I strongly suspect it’s the sort of thing that will never make the priority list …

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I’ve run Intel iGPUs w/ multiple “displays” connected before w/o this problem. Can you explain where you’re seeing the error message?