but.. um.. HOW? In order to play HD content from a Blu-Ray drive.. you need:
1. Blu-Ray drive (obviously)
2. Blu-Ray movie disc (um.. not out on the market yet)
3. HDCP compatible video card (not out on market yet.. and i'm talking TRUE HDCP)
4. HDCP compatible tv or monitor (i'll have to bring my tv in from home i guess)
5. a 3ghz dual core PC
holy crap. that's one hell of a requirement list. how many people in the market have a 3ghz dual core pc? granted people who buy Blu-Ray drives are obviously on the cutting edge, and their PC's are probably capable enough.. but.. damn.. you also need to upgrade your video card too? cuz the current cards on the market say they're HDCP capable.. but not really. The gpu's are, but not the boards.
but anyways.. yeah.. my blu-ray sample is coming in a couple weeks. Panasoni SW-5582.
Full Version: i'm supposed to test a new Blu-Ray drive on a PC..
I have a 3GHz dual core pc 
But yeah I know what you mean, I hate all that HDCP crap that they require. Yeah the thing with the videocards is that I don't think they finalized the HDCP specs which is why ATI, Nvidia and so on couldn't implement it because they don't know what is exactly required although they may have them layed out now as last I heard about this was in Feb/March.
I was going to hold back and get a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD drive for my comp, but probably won't now because my monitor doesn't support it nor will the video card I'm getting, just seems too expensive to be worthwhile for most PC owners at this time.
But yeah I know what you mean, I hate all that HDCP crap that they require. Yeah the thing with the videocards is that I don't think they finalized the HDCP specs which is why ATI, Nvidia and so on couldn't implement it because they don't know what is exactly required although they may have them layed out now as last I heard about this was in Feb/March.I was going to hold back and get a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD drive for my comp, but probably won't now because my monitor doesn't support it nor will the video card I'm getting, just seems too expensive to be worthwhile for most PC owners at this time.
Well you could test it by burning 25GB of data. XD all that pr0n man! j/k
Don't you have the same monitor as me? Dell 2405? I thought that'd support HD?
Cause if it dosn't then i'm really fucking mad!
Cause if it dosn't then i'm really fucking mad!
Dam thats alot of new stuff that i will need to buy 
0/5...mine's holding up just GREAT! 
why such high requirements for a video? What resolution and bitrates does bluray use?
Blu-Ray uses 1920x1080 I believe, but can scale back to 1280x720. Don't know about the bitrate, but I do know it takes a lot of CPU/GPU power to decode H264, althoug I heard that Sony's Studios might stick with MPEG2 for a while yet but everyone else I believe will use the H264 codec.
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