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Forresttheman · 05-10-2007, 05:57 PM

One of my friends says he can get a drive that will play BDs and HDDVDs. can anyone confirm this???

Maximus · 05-10-2007, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Forresttheman

One of my friends says he can get a drive that will play BDs and HDDVDs. can anyone confirm this???

Yup, it is the LG Super Multi Blue drive, it plays and records BDs, but can only play HD DVD.

Forresttheman · 05-10-2007, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Maxpower1987

it plays and records BDs, but can only play HD DVD.

It does not allow for viewing of Blu-Ray movies??

Maximus · 05-10-2007, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Forresttheman

It does not allow for viewing of Blu-Ray movies??

Yeah, but you have to have a good enough computer to run 1080p 40Mbit AVC content. My older spec comp had a lot of trouble (PD 2.8GHz, 6800Ultra, 1GB DDR2) until I upgraded all of the mentioned components (C2D E6600 Long live LGA775!!!!!! 8800GTX, 2 GB Corsair). Your GFX card must also be HDCP compliant through either DVI or HDMI if you want to play BDs directly.

Forresttheman · 05-10-2007, 06:46 PM

sounds good. is it the only combo drive capable of view both formats?

Maximus · 05-10-2007, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Forresttheman

sounds good. is it the only combo drive capable of view both formats?

Yup.

HDViewer · 05-10-2007, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Forresttheman

sounds good. is it the only combo drive capable of view both formats?

This is probably the only way I would ever own a HD DVD "player".

HDViewer · 05-10-2007, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Maxpower1987

Yeah, but you have to have a good enough computer to run 1080p 40Mbit AVC content. My older spec comp had a lot of trouble (PD 2.8GHz, 6800Ultra, 1GB DDR2) until I upgraded all of the mentioned components (C2D E6600 Long live LGA775!!!!!! 8800GTX, 2 GB Corsair). Your GFX card must also be HDCP compliant through either DVI or HDMI if you want to play BDs directly.

Three cheers for LGA775! Hip hip hooray...

Are you running SATA 3.0 in a RAID0 configuration? Just curious because I wouldn't want anything less but I imagine you could use SATA 1.5 and do ok.

Maximus · 05-10-2007, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by HDViewer

Three cheers for LGA775! Hip hip hooray...

Are you running SATA 3.0 in a RAID0 configuration? Just curious because I wouldn't want anything less but I imagine you could use SATA 1.5 and do ok.

I run a WD Raptor 10k 147GB for OS and gaming, and a 500GB WD 7.2k for storage all in SATAII.

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05-10-2007, 05:57 PM	#1
Forresttheman Active Member Member since:Apr 2007 Location:Seattle, Washington Blu-ray reviews:2	One of my friends says he can get a drive that will play BDs and HDDVDs. can anyone confirm this???

05-10-2007, 06:46 PM	#5
Forresttheman Active Member Member since:Apr 2007 Location:Seattle, Washington Blu-ray reviews:2	sounds good. is it the only combo drive capable of view both formats?

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