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RE: Anyone else here using their PC for Blu Ray playback?

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In Reply to: RE: Anyone else here using their PC for Blu Ray playback? posted by Gmood1 on July 06, 2008 at 15:24:14

I set up a "living room PC" as my first DVD player almost 10 years ago, using a Pentium 133 and a Creative DXr2 MPEG2 decoder card and drive, and an infrared remote receiver I built. So, not surprisingly, my first HD disc player is an HTPC. Athlon 3800 X2 with an LG DVD/Blu-ray/HD-DVD combo drive, an Nvidia 8500GT video card, and an ATI Remote Wonder RF remote. Playback of HD-DVD and Blu-ray is smooth, although the player software leaves something to be desired. I did need AnyDVD to get around the fact that the video card did not support HDCP. WindDVD seems a little better than PowerDVD.

Sound is a problem; you really need a video card that supports HDMI audio, and an HDMI receiver (or processor) to get the lossless sound. I haven't had much luck getting multichannel out via the analog outputs. I understand some people have resorted to ripping and reencoding HD movies so they can get proper full-resolution audio playback without HDMI hardware.

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RE: Anyone else here using their PC for Blu Ray playback? - Gmood1 12:25:22 08/01/08 (0)
Thanks for the reply,
I agree with you on the sound. Although I'm content with the 5.1 or 6.1 I can get out of the PC's SPDIF. My reciever doesn't have the new codecs, so not a problem at the moment.
In the near future I would like to build a custom HTPC. It will have true HDMI outs instead of DVI.I'll wait till the price of those cards come down a bit. I use a Nvidia 256 bit 1 gb ram 8800GT right now. I did have an ATI 3450 installed and before that a Nvidia 7600. The Nvidia 8800 of course smokes them both.
Glad too see another HTPC user amongst the crowd! Cyberlink BD works very well on my PC for playback. I have a copy of WinDVD also. There were some hiccups when I tried to use it, so I went back to Cyberlink.
Even my DVDs look better with this video card over my previous Nvidia 7600. Using the PC as a media center has been a winner for me. No need to worry about things getting too old or out of date. I can always upgrade the hardware and the software.

Edits: 08/01/08

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