Re: Blue Ray/HD And a 4 Year Old Computer

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"Scott" <holdencaufield@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 09:06:26 -0000, "M.I.5¾"
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"smlunatick" <yveslec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Feb 1, 8:19 pm, "Oort Cloud" <o...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Guys, what do I need, apart from a Blue Ray/HD drive, to be able to play
Blue Ray/HD disks or 1080p h.264 files on my 4 year old computer?
I'm guessing I'm gonna need to replace my video card with a HD enabled
one
and download appropriate codecs. I hope my 3GHz+ Hyper Threading
processor
is still up to the task, and 4 GB of RAM should be sufficient. Is there
something else I might be missing?

Thanks

HDCP compliant PCI-Express video card and monitor

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Rubbish! HD works perfectly adequately over a VGA connection.

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SATA ports for the Blu-Ray drive. The Blu-Ray drive only seem to us
the Serial ATA (SATA) data interface and not the IDE (PATA) interface.

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Rubbish! Blu-ray drives are available with PATA interface as well as
SATA.
I will grant though that SATA is more common.

How does one get 1080p through a VGA connection?

Set the video resolution to 1920x1080, of course.



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