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rlculver

rlculver

rlculver

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HI,

I am thining of buying a Blue Ray Drive from OCUK to play some Blue Ray DVD's.

I have a few questions : -

1, Are the Blue Ray Drive SATA or IDE?

2, I have a Radeon x1900XTX Graphicd Card. Is this HDCP?

3, How do I connect this into my HD TV 9 HDMI, Component?

Any help would be great. Basically the TV will be my secondary screen. Will I have to connect inmto my sound card or will this be drawen through the Graphics card and to the spekers on the TV?

Thanks
 
1. They all appear to be SATA
2. There is some debate I think. They were meant to be, but many people had problems. The end result I think was that the underlying chipset was capable of supporting it, but it was dependent upon an optional chip which only some manufacturers used. See here
3. Dunno sorry.

I think only the ATI HD2xxx and 3xxx are capable of delivering sound through their HDMI connection since they have built-in 5.1 sound.

If I were you, I'd upgrade to a 3850 or 3870.
 
1. The cheap pioneer one i have is sata.
2. Doesn't matter - my 7900gtx isnt. Get anyDVD by Slysoft and it removes all encoding nonsense for you.
3. DVI - HDMI

Pretty sure you'll have to connect soundcard up too - Dno if your card can put HD audio out through the DVI-HDMI.

Bear in mind you'll need a software player. I use Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra and it works great.

FYI my setup is samsung m87 40" as primary using DVI - HDMI cable with 19" widescreen tft as secondary (which i make primary for liek CS:S or DOD:S) and then sound comes out of the 7.1 analog adaptor for the x-fi xtrememusic (bought this TWO YEARS ago for like £30 oem and it still rocks) into a 2.1 logitech acting as centre/sub, then for the rest its 2.0 bookshelf speakers + stereo amps (lol @ 3 seperate amps). Anyway thats my blu-ray homescinema system on a budget (all cheap except the TV)
 
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Hi,

Many thanks for the comments.

Do I have to use my sound card or can i use my Graphics card to transmit the sound?

Also, is the quality very good? I am looking at either buying a playstation 3 for Blue Ray or putting a drive in my PC. What do you guys recommend?
 
I have an xbox360 drive plugged into my pc. I have tested it with two G cards - x1950xt & 8600GT both have HDCP so your card should too.

I have my audio from my on board soundcard going to my A/V receiver via SPDIF & get DD5.1 playing fine on HD-DVD. So no you dont have to pass the audio through HDMI.
 
I believe the sound provided by ATi cards is 5.1.

I remember 9 months back when we first found out they were putting sound onto the graphics everyone was like.. woah.. wtf.. why??

Now like.. one guy is gonna use it! wahoo!
 
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