Silverstone Crown CW03 HTPC Case

[BillLake]

The Hitachi 7" is devoid of part numbers, they do not include this on the display and I did not want to take it any further apart to see if it was internal to the unit.

As for simultaneously drive both a LCD and the small display that will work with DVD's but I have not been able to drive both with Blu-Ray. This seems to be a protection issue as I can get both to work independantly but not at the same time. Perhaps there is a software program that overcomes this issue but I have played Blu-Ray movies on the 7" screen and on my TV independantly but again when I try to do simultaneous display it gives me the protection error that this is not supported.

 

[martinsykes]

Thanks Bill,
I purchased the HD Fury 2 emulator (from ebay) to drive my Panasonic 36" CRT through its component input to 720P (and potentially 1080P) from a Blue-ray player's HDMI ouput. This emulator can apparently generate the HDCP handshake to maintain the HD signal. I could purchase another unit to sit between the 7" LCD VGA input and a DVI to HDMI adapter from the GC, but I understand that custom scaling tweaks via ATI/Nvidia control panel may cause further problems?

 

[martinsykes]

Bill,
I have just received some advice from another site which suggest that a Gefen DVI to VGA Conversion Box (pre-programmed with an EDID of 1920x1080@60hz (1080P) could be placed between the second GC output and the 7" LCD VGA input. Although this rather expensive solution ($399) would solve any potential scaling problems it would appear that another HD Fury 2 would be required to maintain the HDCP handshake.

 

[BillLake]

Well my budget would not absorb that much more to do the simultanious displays so I settled for just the TV being the playback medium and it works well, I upgraded to a new ATI 4850 to get the HDMI upgrade, it looks great.