Well I rushed out and bought my Pioneer Blu Ray drive BDC-S02BK ($215.00 Umart) when the war between Blu Ray and HD DVD had been won.
Wacked it in and then spent the rest of the day trying to get it going. Brad at Pioneer as usual very supportive but still not going.
I run XP MCE
It came with two Cyberlink applications
Play Movie 1.5 that is a wrapper for MCE ie adds menu entry to MCE and it jumps out and plays Blu Ray in Cyberlinks player (uses nVidia PureVideo HD)
BD Solution is the player and other Cyberlink apps
Things you need to know:
From
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_pvhd_build.html
For playing Blu-ray (and HD DVD) movies
For the ultimate HD DVD or Blu-ray movie experience on a PC, you will need the following:
A PCI Express graphics card with NVIDIA® GeForce® 7 or 8 Series HDCP-capable GPU, secure HDCP CryptoROM, and 256MB graphics memory.
NVIDIA® ForceWare® featuring NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD technology (greater than or equal to Microsoft® Windows® XP driver version 158.22 for the GeForce 8800 and GeForce 7 series GPUs or greater than or equal to Microsoft Windows Vista™ driver version 158.18 for all GeForce 7 or 8 series GPUs)
Optical disc drive supporting Blu-ray and/or HD DVD movie playback
Blu-ray or HD DVD movie player software with PureVideo HD hardware acceleration of H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2 high-definition content.
I have two graphics cards, a Gigabyte 7600GS silent and
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/...ProductID=2237
and a Gainward 8600 GT silent.
http://www.gainward.com/product/prod...roducts_id=138
So you see neither will work. The 7600 because it does not have HDCP and the 8600 because although it has HDMI and HDCP it is not supported in XP yet...(fine in Vista)
Gigabyte have released a 7600 silent that fits the bill, silent, HDMI, HDCP
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/...ProductID=2485
and although I have read reviews on the card going back to 2006 I can't find any here.
Any one seen it?
So I am sitting here wondering what to do. Wait until nVidia release support for the Gainward, fork out big buck on another video card (8800), go to Vista or just forget Blu Ray for a while.
Any suggestion or correction to above appreciated.