Help HDCP Compliance

[WPKenny]

My HD-TV is glitchy so I'm planning on sending it back. While it is away I want to hook my 22" monitor up to my PS3 and DVD player.

I've got an LG L226WTQ-PF monitor. It's quite a nice monitor.
The specs say it is HDCP compliant....
LG Wide Screen Monitor | L226WTQ - PF : LG UK

So I get a HDMI cable and a DVI adapter. Plug it into my PS3 ... black screen.
I try all the tricks. Fix it to 720p etc but still just a black screen despite the monitor menu saying it's at the 720p resolution.

So next I try it on my DVD player at 720p. Comes up straight away. Looks great. But as soon as I get to the menu screen of the DVD it flashes up a message to say the monitor is not HDCP compliant and then scrambles the picture.

So I try both with a HDMI to DVI-D cable. Same result.

I do a bit of googling and find out there's various firmware's around but not too much on the whole HDCP issue.

Next I call LG. It doesn't go well. I speak to a guy who mostly deals with white goods i.e. fridges, washing machines etc. It takes half the conversation before he realises it's a monitor not a TV. Then bumbles around trying to fob me off saying "specs on the website can be wrong", "there is no firmware for these monitors". I tell him if the first is true then I have been mis-sold the monitor. If the latter is true then why are people on other forums saying they have firmware revisions more recenth than mine?
He also says "oh it's a monitor so it's only meant to be used on a computer". If the monitor shows a picture from the DVD player just fine until the non-hdcp compliance scrambles the picture that kind of blows that theory out of the water as it clearly works at 720p res on a digital input.

Their tech's don't talk to customers. I have to go through the fridge specialist. They offered to take it away and "take a look" at it. They still don't confirm they can update the firmware so there's no way I'm sending my monitor away to get kicked around a warehouse for a few weeks for no good reason.

Which brings me to my point....(finally I hear you cry!)
Can anyone point me in the direction of a (free) HDCP test I can run from my Windows 7 64-bit install that will prove it's not HDCP compliant even when connected to a computer?

 

[Ch3tan]

I googled around a bit, from the topics on various forums about the ps3 and hdcp over dvi, I would say your monitor does not support hdcp over dvi.
The ps3 only supports 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p over hdmi. If your monitor is not capable of hdcp then you will get a blank screen as the ps3 does not support 480i over hdmi.

Found people using hdmi -> dvi so it does work, but only with a hdcp compliant monitor.

I would say you have been misold, there is no such thing as hdcp that only works with a computer, it either is fully hdcp compliant or your have been conned.

 

[WPKenny]

I would say you have been misold, there is no such thing as hdcp that only works with a computer, it either is fully hdcp compliant or your have been conned.

It's looking more like a mis-sell and/or dodgy firmware. I get a picture from the DVD player on 720p but only until the DVD starts to play then the picture gets scrambled after a few seconds.

I'm trying to get LG to confirm they can update the firmware and it will correct the problem.

I've got a number for their warranty repair guys so they might be able to talk technical with me and I might make some progress when I get a chance to phone.

 

[WPKenny]

Will give this a go when I get home .... CyberLink Blu-ray Disc Support

Unless anyone knows of a better way to confirm my monitor is HDCP complaint?

 

[WPKenny]

The program said my monitor wasn't HDCP compliant. :/