HDCP Issues with 9600GT and Windows XP Pro

[softnerd]

Howdy, folks-

I'm having a heck of a time trying to play Blu-Ray discs in my HTPC. Blu-Ray movies will start playing, and then I get a message from PowerDVD that it couldn't initialize HDCP and that I should try an analog output instead. I downloaded the BD Advisor tool from Cyberlink's web site and it's telling me that everything is good except for my graphics driver and my display.

Specs:

CPU: Athlon X2 4200+ (BD Advisor checks ok)
Video: GeForce 9600GT (BD Advisor checks ok...this GPU is supposed to be HDCP compliant)
Video Driver Version: 6.14.11.8585 (BD Advisor says it's NOT compliant, but it's the newest driver)
OS: Windows XP Pro SP3 (BD Advisor checks ok)
Blu-Ray Drive: Plextor PX-310SA (BD Advisor checks ok...it's HDCP compliant)
Display: Samsung LN46A950 TV (Last year's top-of-the-line Samsung LCD...it's definitely HDCP compliant, but BD Advisor says it's not)

The TV is connected via HDMI...I'm using a DVI-to-HDMI adapter from the video card to the TV. Everything else works great. Is it possible that nVidia's newest driver for my 9600 GT isn't HDCP compliant? I'd be pretty annoyed if that's the case. Anybody have any experience with this issue?

Thanks!

[HomeyFour]

I ran into that as well. Turns out in my case that I had to be running Vista to get Blu Ray to work properly!

[softnerd]

Originally Posted by HomeyFour

I ran into that as well. Turns out in my case that I had to be running Vista to get Blu Ray to work properly!

Bah, I call shenanigans on the HDCP standard. If they're going to force a ridiculous DRM scheme down our throats couldn't they at least be bothered to make it work properly? Too much to ask?

I look forward to the day when all of my experiences with technology can be ruined by broken DRM...a day when the only people whose technology actually works are the ones that illegally circumvent said DRM, and those of us that actually spent money to comply with their ridiculous, impotent, "cracked within a week by a 17 year old programmer" standards are left twisting in the wind...being bounced from one company's incompetent and unattentive tech support to the next (present company excepted).

Oh, wait, we're already there. Yay....?

[Jakesty]

Download a trial of AnyDVD-HD and this should work for you. This is supposed to drop the DRM encryption.