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I saw in the customer reviews that some did mention that it was HDCP compliant. Don't know what to say about that except that it is someones opinion. If it does not say it in the product description or in the specifications, I would say that it isn't. My two cents worth...
As for you're set-up, I got it now.
Unhook the splitter and any HDMI devices, try connect up your touch screen monitor through VGA (assuming your monitor has VGA) if you can and get that functioning properly, then hook up your TV (Onkyo) through HDMI.
You may not be able to do any of this if the Dell is not capable of supporting two different resolutions (TV and Touch Screen Monitor). If the resolutions are the same then it may work, both being 1920 x 1080 for example.
In the tech chat it was mentioned that it was 1.2 compliant, I am going to guess that they may be talking about 1.2 version of HDMI. If that's the case that doesn't have much to do about HDCP. 1.2 just refers to what version of HDMI it, which is old incidentally, most are using 1.3 and 3D output requires version 1.4.
Try the VGA/HDMI connection first if no luck return the splitter and find one that actually says it's HDCP enabled, not from what other users tell you.
If you do manage to get both screens to work, it may default to the lower resolution of the two.
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I had a good look at your link and I couldn't find anywhere where it said it was HDCP compliant.
I would say that's the problem.
This one comes right out and says it is in their description.
http://www.connectgear.com/HDMI/HSP12.htm
You could try running a trial of AnyDVD HD on your Dell and see if that helps, but then you have to pay for that.
http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvdhd.html
Running AnyDVD HD may not work as I have read there are small circuit boards in the HDMI cable themselves that prevent what you're trying to do here. That's why it appears to me why your product is not HDCP capable.
Why do you even need the splitter, unless your Onkyo Receiver has only one HDMI input ?
If it has two, then the Dell and you stand-alone player inputs into the receiver and the output from the Onkyo plugs into the TV.
This is just my opinion as I have never ran a splitter, but it's food for thought. 
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Hi everyone.
Please also note that DVD12 will not let you capture a frame of a Blu-ray movie.
You will have to run SlySoft's AnyDVD HD for this to work.
To be sure, run the trial, Cyberlink may have changed something, but the last time I tried it would not let me capture Blu-ray frame.
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When I was running DVD12, it behaved the same way, but in my case I was using it through my Denon AVR and my projector so it didn't matter.
It's just the way it is.
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https://membership.cyberlink.com/prog/support/cs/service/technical-support.do
The Phone Support costs money though. 
When you contact them by form, it can take up to a week or more to get a response, but they always do respond.
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You can't expect Cyberlink to start tuning their products just yet to get them to work in W8, it's just too early.
The Microsoft web sight even warns people that this is a consumer preview and that some applications may not work.
Here is the FAQ page from Microsoft concerning W8, look at the third question : Are there risks to installing Windows 8 Consumer Preview ?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-8/faq
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I just went with the life time subscription for 119.00 € and have never regretted it, this allows free updates forever.
I always check for BETA versions form the forum too, before backing up a movie.
http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=52539
There are a few other things it does as well, it allows you to create ISO files of a Blu-ray (or DVD) as a backup so you have your movie in case the dog chews up the original.
Speed Menu feature - This removes all the Trailers, FBI warnings and other annoying things and takes you right to the movie files. I like it because I don't have to sit there for 10 minutes waiting for it to start.
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Before spending a grand or more on a new TV, try running Any DVD first to remove all the copy protection stuff.
It's a fraction of the cost.
http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvdhd.html
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No body ever said that computer Blu-ray playing software was perfect.
Just from my experience with them they can be very problematic, either by design or incompatibility.
For what the cost is for DVD12 or any other player for that matter, why not spend the money on a stand alone player.
You won't have any problems with them other then the occasional firmware update.
You didn't actual say if it played your 3D movie OK, people on the forum here have difficulty wit that.
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They have a 30 day return policy after you purchase.
http://www.cyberlink.com/prog/support/cs/purchase-faq-content.do?id=12337
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I've answered my own question, it's not just power DVD, it's any Blu-ray playing software and probably any media.
If I disable WMP, Windows does not see the disc and neither does the Blu-ray player.
Even with out any Blu-ray playing software installed the title of the movie will show up in Windows in "Computer", but with WMP disabled there is no title.
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I have just recently learned that Power DVD12 depends on WMP to be present on the hard drive.
Is this necessary just for DVD12 or does this apply to all versions of Power DVD eg. DVD8 and DVD10 ?
Cyberlink Michael, is this true, this may explain why I never could get any of Cyberlinks DVD products to work.
There was always some sort of jerky playback problem, I almost got it to the point where it would work, but I never was able to cure it.
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There ya go, I would have never thought having no WMP was the issue. 
It would still be interesting to try TMT5 with out WMP and see if it would work.
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It would be interesting to see if a different Blu-ray player would work, like TMT5, assuming that you haven't tried this already.
http://www.arcsoft.com/downloads/tbyb/totalmediatheatre5_retail_tbyb_all.exe
As for Windows Media Player that shouldn't make any difference, I would think.
And for Windows updates, in trying to solve another problem I was running DVD12 for a while with out any and it worked fine.
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I was curios about the error so I Googled it and apparently some codecs are missing from the installation form DVD12.
Perhaps this is from an anti-virus and/or firewall from blocking the files, I have found from experience that this can happen. McAffee, Norton and Kasperesky can be the worst with Comodo fire wall also causing this problem.
Power DVD also relies on Microsoft Redistributable packages to operate their software. These are pre-written software packages that vendors use to save time when developing software. Some use it and some don't. (you may already know this). DVD12 installs at least 3 or 4 of these and I believe that these can also be corrupted from overzealous ant-virus programs.
I will make a suggestion to try and fix your problem, uninstall DVD12 and any Redistributable packages. Run CCleaners registry cleaner as many times as necessary until it finds nothing.
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
Save the install package or DVD12 to the desk top and install it from there, not form a temporary folder. Disable your ant-virus and firewall programs and try again. Restart you machine after the installation.
I may be totally off the mark here and Cyberlink Michael or someone else may have something else to add, but it's something to think about until then.
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Thought of something else that should work and is much more practical.
A wireless USB mouse, it will have to be a good one from Logitech and have a long range, but it should work. The newer ones are better at greater distances, a Bluetooth one would not work.
It could be use on an end or coffee table.
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/mice-pointers/mice/devices/wireless-mouse-m510
Here is a guy with your same problem and he went with a Microsoft product which according to him have a 30 foot range.
http://www.highdefforum.com/computers-htpcs/95532-long-range-wireless-mouse-laptop-hdtv.html
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Jeff, thanks for the reply, but making things bigger will not help.
The TV is 8 meters away and around a corner. So I there is no keyboard option to switch to 3D, I will still need someone to tell me where my mouse pointer is, or I will need to keep on walking between TV and PC and carefully move my mouse until it is on the right spot and then hit the left mouse key.
Well unless Cyberlink comes up with a keyboard short cut, there isn't much you can do. You didn't mention in your first post it was around a corner.
Maybe move the computer to where the TV is, buy another computer for deticated 3D playback, but if you're going to do that it would be cheaper to get a stand-alone 3D player.
Perhaps some carefully placed mirrors, although that may seem like a silly suggestion, but it would work.
If you haven't payed for the software yet, why don't you simply get a stand-alone player, they are not that expensive now.
Cyberlink may take up to two weeks to respond, assuming they have an answer.
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Try this.
In the upper right hand corner of DVD12 there is a small "TV" Icon, click on that to change to Cinema mode, which will make things bigger.
If you're still in Windows this will not work of course.
I am not familiar with this setting as I have never used it, but it's supposed to take care of the problem(s) you're having.
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That's a nice projector, at the time frame interpolation was most important for me and still is. When I was shopping for one the Panasonic 3000 was highly rated and way more affordable than the JVC line. Now I have a Pany 4000 and I am very happy with it. Not too interested in 3D, I found it bothers my eyes a bit.
I enjoy it more then going to the theater.
I know what you mean about frame drops. I am a perfectionist too and I spent months trying to get Power DVD to work, but to no avail. The FI feature takes care of the naturally occurring frame judder as you know, but any frame drops, skips, or what ever you call it shows up even more.
I think Cyberlink relies on frame judder to cover up dropped frames ???
If I turned of the FI feature I would not notice it.
At least there is re-clock, but yes, it would be nice if you didn't have to use it, and shouldn't have to.
Unfortunately it may take Cyberlink months or even years to come up with their own version.
I will continue to monitor these forums as I find all of this very interesting and maybe Cyberlink will surprise us !
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I have had differences like this with different players and even different versions of the same player, like Power DVD8 and P DVD11.
DVD 8 looked washed out and DVD11 looked like what you described, too much black or too dark if you like.
Not sure why it's like this, but I raised the brightness a bit and turned down the contrast. On my projector there are endless adjustments for this. For your computer, you should be able to let your NVIDIA control panel take over and adjust it there.
I don't think Windows has any adjustment for contrast, just gamma, brightness and tint.
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This will be very interesting to see if the developing teem comes up with anything concerning reclock or at least their own version of it.
From all the reading I have been doing it is not easy to make a Blu-player that works in Windows. I have been told it's an after thought, that if a given Windows operating system was designed with a Blu-ray player in mind, no one would be having problems. I have my doubts about that though.
Apparently one of the problems to over come is the video/audio sync conflict. I have read that a computer has two separate clocks, one for each and this makes it very difficult to design a working player around this, even if the clocks are out by one millisecond, it will cause problems. A stand alone player has one clock where both the audio and video run off of.
Myself, I did finally convince Digital River to return my money as I simply could not get the jerky playback to stop. Shutting background tasks off helped a little each time, but the problem was never cured.
Even with reclock I could not get the DTS sound to work and that was quite possibly because reclock did not support it.
I can get TMT5 to work really well, I watched two movies last night with out a single problem. This is very confusing, why is it that Power DVD works for others, but not all ? The same can be said for TMT5, many have huge stuttering problems with TMT5 while Power DVD works great.
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