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Fudoh wrote:$35, has coax and optical and the greatest thing about it: it even kills HDCP, so you can record PS3 and such on a BMD.

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Don't mind the DVI connection instead of HDMI, just use a DVI to HDMI cable...
That's the opposite of what we need though, is it bi-directional?
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I think so. From what I've read on it, you can feed HDMI with embedded audio through the DVI port and output HDMI plus digital audio from coax or optical.
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HDCP stripper is all that's needed, right? Just so long as it feeds video + audio through DVI.
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Ed Oscuro wrote:HDCP stripper is all that's needed, right? Just so long as it feeds video + audio through DVI.
How good is the picture on the Wii U-or any HD console, for that matter-with component cables? What's the resolution with those?
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$35, has coax and optical and the greatest thing about it: it even kills HDCP, so you can record PS3 and such on a BMD.
Almost, it won't give surround sound, you'd need something to re-encode the Wii's 5.1 LPCM into Dolby Digital first, 5.1LPCM won't work over optical.

It kills HDCP too, are you certain?!
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It kills HDCP too, are you certain?!
I'm certain, yes. This particular one is often used with BMD cards.
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I have read that this box messes up timing (converting 59.9hz to 60hz etc) so if you have a picky display device this might cause strange effects!
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definitely not, otherwise a BMD card would be the first unit to complain and stop working. The BMDs are EXTREMELY picky. I also don't see how a box like this could even change the refresh in the first place. There's no digital buffer.
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