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Advice on GPU and Blueray

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I am running a 8800gtx card with 4gb cosair ram and a quard core cpu, am i right in saying all i need is power dvd and a blu ray optical drive with appropriate cables and i should be able to play blu rays on my plasma??
 
Reading some official literature on the 8-series it is capable of displaying 2560x1600 which I understand, correct me if I'm wrong to be full HD 1080 but there is conflicting reports of whether it only supports interlaced and not progressive. Newer cards I would imagine will further take any load off your CPU although it's obviously powerful enough...
 
Not sure if the 8800GTX is HDCP compliant ? Have one myself, but never used it to output Blu-Ray......but iirc several gfx cards do not have HDCP output ?
 
the gtx isnt hdcp compatible, no. so you'll either have to use an analogue output (VGA) or use anydvdHD ...which you'll probably end up using anyway.
 
Reading some official literature on the 8-series it is capable of displaying 2560x1600 which I understand, correct me if I'm wrong to be full HD 1080 but there is conflicting reports of whether it only supports interlaced and not progressive. Newer cards I would imagine will further take any load off your CPU although it's obviously powerful enough...

Full HD is 1920 x 1080 so 2560 x 1600 is actually higher. But as mentioned you will need HDCP output to get the HD signal to you monitor, else it will scale it to SD size

Rich
 
Full HD is 1920 x 1080 so 2560 x 1600 is actually higher. But as mentioned you will need HDCP output to get the HD signal to you monitor, else it will scale it to SD size

Rich
it wont, it just wont play it. its the analogue output that can be limited to 480p

PLease excuse the ignorance but is HDCP a software thing or hardware thing?

its a combination of both :)
 
anydvdHD, as i mentioned. its a piece of software that strips the hdcp content and allows you to play the discs. ideally, you wouldnt have to use it all all, but a lot of people find they end up using it even if they are 100% hdcp compliant for a number of reasons, not least because some discs just wont play until the software players like powerdvd (very slowly) get an update.

That or a new gpu, yes.
 
at nearly 60 quid? i dony know. a new gpu would cost the same, but then if you run in to problems playing discs.........

im the wrong person to ask anyway, since im far too impatient to put up with the problems playing bluray content on a pc. i have a pc that can play bluray but never does, and a laptop that can play (and write) them but i dont play them on that either unless im away from home.
 
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