Blu Ray in VMC
Now that the Blu Ray drive is installed, and I have gone out and bought a BR disc, I quickly discovered that my Nvidia 7 (7300GS) series graphics card was not able to handle blu ray playback. It worked but was very jittery – certainly unwatchable.
The blu ray drive comes with a piece of software that lets you know if your system is up to scratch – mine clearly wasn’t! The program said that my CPU and GPU were not able to handle playback. I suspected that the video card (GPU) ws not up to the job, but I would have thought my Celeron D processor would have been able to handle it.
So I took the cheap option and went out and bought an 8 series Nividia graphics card (8400GS), which I have just installed. And it works!! Amazing clarity on blu ray – even with my 768dpi screen (running at 600dpi).
So you need an 8 series or higher Nivida GPU and a Celeron D processor as a minimum to run Blu Ray. All we need now is for Windows Media Centre to play blu ray natively.
Hopefully this will be inplace for Windows 7….
Tags: 7300GS, 8400GS, Blu Ray, Celeron D, Nivida, Vista Media Centre