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

Posted by Bubba on July 31, 2008 at 18:09:00:
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.