You will have some option for split display or extend display or something. On your computer you might have to set your video card for this. Now if you got the Blue Ray to work on your computer, then you can use your computer as a blue ray player for your TV. Don't confuse HDMI with DVI on your computer. You have to make sure that you computer and your tv both have HDMI connectors. HDMI is just an interface that allows a better picture. Hey coyera I am not sure what you mean by does HDMI work with plasma.
Hey just an fyi thats the not players fault you need to go to lg website and download lg odd auto firmware update and it will auto update your drive to play the newest blu rays
If anyone is having the same problem help me out, i want to know if its something wrong with my hardware or if its simply a much needed patch for powerdvd. or if there is then i guess theres very few people having problems with them because i cant find any help. Its fustrating because theres so few people out there that even have blu-ray players for the pc. Its played about 5 different titles so far without any problems but i got a couple new titles like "Jumper" and it wont play them, it freezes up my computer and then crashes(blue screen of death). I do have PowerDVD 7 ultra that came with my LG Blu-ray/HD DVD drive but ive ran into serious problems with it. ive searched and searched and cant find any answers to any of my questions. its impossible to find anything to do with blu-ray on the pc. It pisses me off no end.Im seeking the same thing as you are.
I will freely admit the open-source community does a fantastic job with that but until they made ffdshow compatible with h.264 and VC1, plus get round the HDCP encryption PowerDVD, WinDVD and the Nvidia one (if they still do it), you can't watch encrypted stuff.Īnd for you having problems with HD playing: That'll tell you what works and what doesn't on your PC Like I did say on one of the pages - HDCP is a frikkin nightmare and everyone has to dance to the beat of content producers. this is also why it'll slow to a crawl in HD, you need a very beefy dual core CPU or GPU offloading.īut the quality is a highly subjective issue and someone who's spent the best part of a few hours tweaking ffdshow (I've been there) will always contest it looks better than anything else
If you use a good graphics card with enough shader power and PureVideo or UVD you'll get a fantastic quality output and upscaling, although, yes, it is less tweakable, but you're still offloading everything from CPU. A promise of it being included at a later date isn't really enough.Ĭlick to expand.Not entirely true. I'm certainly not going to bother with PowerDVD 8 (or Blu-Ray) if they have no HD DVD support in there. So now I'm not going to bother because there feels like a 90% chance I'll have to return everything. I see Dreamworks logo, then it slows to a crawl. I got a new system (needed one anyway), decide to try it again, all HDCPed-up. But I tried it before with my HD DVD drive and there was some problem with my graphics card. I would buy PowerDVD 8 when it comes out if I actually "knew" it was going to work. They could use that power to lay down some rules and get this crap in order. that's drive makers to graphic card manufacturers, the lot. They have the entire 'HD'HTPC market in their hands. Then tell them to start busting some studio heads.
You should tell Cyberlink to make a lightweight player that has a "less is more" interface and make a single version. The quagmire of DRM and encryption schemes is just destroying the "PC". How stifling is it for the PC industry that we find ourselves in this situation? People could be doing so much with their GPUs.
Is PowerDVD still the only software that gpus allow full H264 and VC1 offloading? That's reason enough never to buy this product. I would rather wait for something like Song Bird for movies, which is made using mozilla. But since it's a closed system that works through software people have to pay for, that's never going to happen. Maybe it would be good for "film experts" or tutors to offer commentaries with. I wouldn't listen to a most director's commentaries.
My music is all trapped up in itunes now (ratings and play-counts etc.) and I wouldn't want to go down that route again for a movie collection.Īs for the mash ups/social bumf. But I don't think I would want to use powerdvd software to do it (when I have the space to actually backup my DVD collection 'losslessly'.).įirstly their interfaces look clunky, appletv rip off or not. There definitly needs to be some good software for that job. I've read it now, the collecting and cataloguing backups is a good feature. Saw "social networking" and skipped to the next page But you don't get the 3D interface elements with XP? I though it said that somewhere.