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NVIDIA's new G80 core has HDCP technology inside |
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Written by Mavke
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Friday, 21 July 2006 |
The term HDCP stands for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection and it is a video version of DRM. That is the easiest way to describe it. It will be a necessity for playing HD-DVD's or Blu-Ray disks from your PC. Even this is not going to happen anytime soon but everyone is already going nuts in May about HDMI and HDCP. HDMI is the interface and HDCP is the copy protection element. HDCP works over DVI as the HDMI connector works on a same principle as DVI but has a neat connector and can transfer audio as well. The G80 and the shipping G73, GeForce 7600 generation will have both HDMI and HDCP inside the processor. Making the highly unavailable Silicon Image 1930 chip obsolete. - The Inquirer
 NVIDIA's new G80 core has HDCP technology inside
Current NVIDIA non existent HDMI cards are OEM stuff only and have to use the Silicon Image 1930 chip. The Silicon Image chip includes HDCP and Key ROM and once you get the audio signal in it, you can transfer the signal to your TV or Display via HDMI. With this new design NVIDIA will remove the need for an external HDMI/HDCP transmitter and all you need to add to a G80/G73 based card to have the HDMI and HDCP is the small Key ROM that will identify your computer to the copy protection monsters. Usually this Key ROM costs around $0.30 when you buy a bunch of them.
We are moving to a more native HDMI and HDCP chip, but beware HDMI will really be threatened by a new connector called UDI that is far more capable than the nice and easy HDMI.
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