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Will the BII DAC support DTCP by an ieee 1394a connection for the DSD input/output?
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The title says it all really. I would like to use a firewire (ieee 1394a) connection from my Denon DVD-5910 DVD player and go into an ieee 1394 jack I will install into my DAC chassis and input the signal into the Buffalo II. Will the Buffalo II be able to decode this? In other words, will it support DTCP? Also, it looks like in the Buffalo II manual that you have to have the switches set in two different places to support S/PDIF and DSD at the same time. In other words it is not possible. Am I misunderstanding the manual? Thank you for your help Brian and Russ. I hope this makes sense as it's really late and I am pretty tired.  Greg
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OK...... I guess I asked a stupid question or an incorrect question. What I would like to do is use the preinstalled ieee1394a jack on the back of my Denon DVD-5910 universal player and send the DSD signal to an ieee 1394 input I would install into my Buffalo II DAC chassis. Would this work OK? Or, do I have to tap the signal in the Denon before the output going to the ieee 1394a output jack. I have seen a couple others that have tapped the DSD signal before the output, and it worked. But, the way I would like to do it would be less cluttered and over all easier. But, will it work?
In simpler terms what does "direct DSD input" mean for the Buffalo II.
Greg
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DTCP is encrypted, thus unless you have a DTCP compliant interface, you cannot get to the unencrypted data. In order to feed DSD to Buffalo, you need to get a hold of the unencrypted DSD. One way to do it is tapping into the chips inside some SACD players. Prior discussions in this forum indicate that TPA has no current plans of implementing DTCP or HDMI compliant interfaces
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Quote:TPA has no current plans of implementing DTCP or HDMI compliant interfaces That is correct. Even if we had the money for the licensing, the fact that we would expose the hi-res data for use would violate the licensing agreements of both standards (why have encryption if they would just let you decrypt it?). It would all end badly in a lawsuit.
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