While looking through Intel's mobo roadmap, I noticed that two of the mobo's had HDMI.

I personally dont like HDMI... why someone would want to have an expencive HDTV, an expencive Blu-Ray/HD-DVD player, and send audio TO the tv instead of a seperate reciever, I dont konw. Its like buying an X6800 and disabling one of the cores and not overclocking..... its just disgusting. There is probably a way around it, like a digital sound output on a TV, or an AV reciever that can output DVI from HDMI, but thats really not the point... anyways, onto my question


Some of Intel's new mobo's will support HDMI, but will they support HDCP??? Can I watch content protected material without having to buy a new video card???

and also, If I cant, can I buy a crappy HDCP compliant card, and put it in a sli/xfire mobo, and have the crappy card just run my tv, while my (formerly) good card runs my monitor?

Can I mix Nvidia/ATI cards if I'm not using sli/xfire?

and can I use 2 Nvidia cards not in sli on an xfire mobo?



Thanks for your help. I want to make a HTPC, but what good is a HTPC if it cant play HDTV??? I've searched through google and some popular forums for my question, but no one really seems to care.

Annother question/afterthought: Is a software hack possible for DRM? I have seen a small box called "DVIMAGIC" or something like that, that was supposedly a "DVI signal booster", but could also be used as a DRM stripper..... I'm sure the company had NO IDEA about that use.......:lol: