I'm no expert and the only comment I can think of is to buy a LCD
monitor...sure to be some bargains somewhere and you'll save on
electricity

Paul;920941 Wrote:
> Vista 32bit sp1:
>
> Main monitor is a older CRT and I have disabled EDID (with needle nose
> pliers) in order to get the high resolution I need in vista. The
> problem
> with this is that when in clone mode (with a flat panel tv) media
> player
> refuses to play DVDs due to content protection. I think this is a built
> in
> restriction with monitors that won't plug and play, in this case my
> generic
> monitor, not the tv. I think they are afraid my unknown monitor could
> be a
> high speed DVD reproduction robot, ha! The fix is to use VLC. Seems a
> shame
> though. Either they should fix the resolution lockdown on monitors, or
> fix
> the content protection chain nonsense. Can any of the experts here
> comment
> on this stuff?


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