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You could keep the PC on all the time (allowing it to only go to “away” mode), by disabling sleep (see power options). Another option would be to host the Ceton card in a server machine that is always on, but as you’re just “getting your feet wet” you probably don’t have that situation.
Unfortunately, the wait after power cycle of the Ceton card has something to do with authorizing the cablecard (perhaps some signal has to come down from the cable co) and the only way is to keep the power applied. HDHR Prime gets around this by having the unit powered all the time.
We tend to fire up the HTPC to watch pre-recorded content about 95% of the time, so it is not a big deal to wait for a bit on wake-from-sleep for live tv. For the first year, I didn’t allow my HTPC to sleep, as I was fearful about the WAF of the Ceton wait, and the reality of it is these machines don’t draw a lot of power (idling at 30w at $0.10/kwh or so… costs what… under $30 per year… assuming my math is right).
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I’ve had some discussions on this and the technically not a bug. DisplayPort isn’t approved for usage (dumb). And the bug with the 2nd is that it works at all.
I do have a Connect request to get DisplayPort working in W8 FWIW. And I think it will go through, especially since it affects laptopstablets frequently and the push for tablets in W8.
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I guess DisplayPort not being approved (is this some goofy disagreement between the DP and HDMI people or something?) didn’t stop Dell from marketing their product as HDCP compatible, did it…
And I’m kind of confused about why there would be a problem sending copy-freely content over an “unprotected” display connection? I mean, there is no DRM protection on this content, so it can be copied, transcoded, re-muxed, saved, edited, uploaded to servers on the internet, archived, etc (copyright issues aside). Why would anyone care if they could also be transmitted over a non-HDCP compliant connection? Or is this a Cable Labs certification issue?
Good to hear you have a connect request for W8 to fix. It seems obvious to me they should fix it… without having their customers tell them. Hopefully they will also look at the 29/59 bug too. Sometimes I’m a little embarrassed that I used to work there. Really.
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btw… I also love my U3011. If you ever need some side monitors for it I can recommend a few that blend nicely with it.
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I’ve got an old Dell 2001FP (1600×1200) rotated 90 degrees. I really like how the height matches moving the mouse between monitors placed next to each other. Now if I had more desk space and more money, two or three U3011’s would be awesome. Ah… to dream.
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Sadly it is a limitation of Microsoft Windows 7 Media Center. Even though DisplayPort 1.1 and 1.2 are technically capable of HDCP and your graphic card and display support it, Windows 7 Media Center does not. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2392252 for more information.
If it is Copy-Freely content you can restore and then maximize Windows Media Center and it will play but not Copy-Once or higher.
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Yup. I discovered all of the above during the process. At first I feared there was something wrong with the u3011 (which I purchased off ebay). I was relieved to find it was a problem with Windows instead.
Clearly it is a bug in Media Center… two bugs really. 1) not accounting for DHCP compatible DisplayPort, and 2) the requirement to restore/maximize for content that is copy-freely.
That’s a really good deal… Too bad I already have the 2 I need.
Also, I wonder what GigE NIC that has in it? It is likely Realtek, which would be not so good news. Better off with Intel.
With 3 extenders, you might want more RAM. Especially if they are to be used at the same time.
My only concern with that AsRock PC is what kind of noise does it make?! It is based off a laptop MB and CPU and pretty small form factor, so there might not be space enough for large, low RPM, quiet fans.
I did find this review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4713/asrock-coreht-252b-review/1
There is some data on noise there, but it is not exactly SPCR type nitpicking…
HDMI Detective is from Gefen. It is a device that remembers the EDID information. It is used to solve problems where EDID info is not transmitted correctly all the time. Do a search on amazon.com and you’ll find it for sale. I don’t know if it does anything to correct HDCP problems, although it does have a switch for HDCP compatibility.
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I wish the GPU vendors would just quit it with all this “enhancement” stuff. IMO, There is only one way to properly display the frames in video, especially from high-quality content (BR, HDDVD, DVD, etc). There is nothing that can be done that is appropriate except an exact decode. What’s there is there. And what’s there was intended to be there. And that’s how the drivers should display it. End of story.
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You gotta wonder what kind of screwed up spec HDMI is, that short cables cause problems. Longish cables are generally what give troubles with interconnects, not short ones.
Crazy stuff.
// Dean (As you guessed, not a fan of HDMI)
One thing you might want to try is to change out your HDMI cables. I had an incident recently where this popped up with a short HDMI cable (Gefen branded 1-footer that came with my HDMI Detective). Before I was using a longer cable and had no troubles, then one day decided to use the longer cable to connect my Xbox360, and use the shorter cable from HTPC -> HDMI Detective, and then started getting HDCP errors. I’ve heard that about HDMI cables, especially short ones, swapped it out for the longer one again, and so far the HDCP errors are gone.
Something to try…
Just an update on this (posted this at avsforum too):
First of all… yes, it really does work, but not exactly like I thought it was…
The RX-V867 is actually down mixing to 2-channel LPCM on each of its HDMI outputs (this might be because that’s all the TV supports). This is OK for my purpose, but I would imagine not so much for the person who wanted to run two separate 7.1/5.1 rooms from the same source using only HDMI.
In the end, I think I’m going to look for a cheap replacement receiver for the Yamaha (a different brand to avoid the remote conflict). It needs to do audio over HDMI but only (2-channel) LPCM… the other stuff (DD, DTS, DTS-MA, TrueHD, etc.) it doesn’t need to decode as the RX-V867 is already doing that for me…
Another alternative… would be to find a (cheap) HDMI audio decoder (again only needs to handle LPCM 2-channel) and pair it up with a 2-channel amp.
Note that if you are trying to remote desktop to your server over the internet (not on your LAN) you will have additional setup to do. Specifically, you’ll have to open the ports on your router that MS uses for RDP and forward them to the IP address that is your server (good idea to use static IP on your LAN or DHCP reservations). I think it is TCP port 4125 but that is going from memory…
You will also have to use a dyanamic DNS service such as the one provided by default with yourhomeserver.homeserver.com, or some other compatible service.
It has to be enabled by default. The Dashboard app (that you run from the client) is actually a remote desktop app.
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