hello, great, thanks for your message about your laptop. also, you may want
to check out certain sony blu ray player models, sony blu ray boots way
faster then other brands, some low cost blu ray players are super slow and
take forever to boot. but the better quality ones boot fast. thanks les
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 11:28 AM
Subject: Playing Bluray discs
Hi!
I now have a number of these in my collection, not many but I'm in no
doubt that the "Not Many" total will expand to something like "Quite A
Few" in the not to distant future.
There's nothing worse than having a small Bluray collection and no player
to play them on so I started shopping.
I tried one of the cheap Samsung players, seemed to work well however I
had to wait! quite lengthy periods for the machine to "Boot".
A friend of mine suggested what should have been very obvious at the start
of this exercise, I had a HP Entertainment PC which just happens to
feature a Bluray capable drive so why not play the movies on that?
as it happens the machine can be hooked up easily to my surround-sound via
the use of a HDMI cable from the HDMI port of the PC to a HDMI port on my
surround-sound receiver so I get all the great benefits of Bluray High
Definition surround-sound audio as well as the video, well I don't
directly benefit from the video but I'm sure you get my drift.
anyone once plugged in and set up I was pleasantly surprised, computer
handles the discs far faster than does the Samsung, I'm so disgusted with
the Samsung to be honest that I'll be taking the player back from where I
bought it from and that's something I very rararely do. Perhaps the
$800.00 Samsung player would have been faster though at $800.00? Well
that's nearly what I paid for this HP Entertainment PC, I've pasted the
specs as follows for your interest.
<snip>
product name: DV6-2119tx
product number: wf606pa
Processor: 1.6ghz Core I7 720QM (6mb cache).
memory: 4gb (Max 4gb).
Graphics: nvidia gt230m (1gb dedicated ram).
display: 15.6in (1366x768).
hard drive: 640gb (5400rpm).
Optical drive: Blueray RW+dvd Super Multi.
modem: 56kbps fax/modem.
Network: 10/100/1000mbps.
Wireless: 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1.
Sound: SRS Premium Sound (Altec Lansing speakers).
Built inn digital tv tuner.
keyboard/trackpad: standard keyboard plus numeric keypad, multitouch
trackpad.
slots: pc card (expresscard 54/34) integrated card reader
(sd/mmc/ms/mspro/xd).
ports: 4 usb 2.0 (1 shared with ESata), VGA, HDMI, IEEE1394 (firewire),
RJ11 (network)/rj45
(modem), 2 headphone out, microphone in, consumer ir, digital antenna.
operating system: windows 7 Home premium 32 bit.
Also includes Targus premium leather carry case
<snip>
Now obviously that was a second-hand bargain I got myself for a grand,
talk about give away <smile>.
I chose this model because it had the built-in video tuner which works a
treat with Windows Media Centre, I purchased a Windows 7 64-bit upgrade
kit for an additional $30.00.
This model is around 12 months old and the later models lack some features
such as the video tuner, fax modem etc which made this machine even more
attractive still, only real problem with it is the battery life which is
very small and yep! the later models of HP have this problem dealt with
but I figured that as I'm usually near a power outlet then battery life
wouldn't worry me all that much and in any case, if I wanted portable
power I had plenty of other things to do the job here like the Asus EEEPC
Netbook etc.
sent from my HP Powerhouse Notebook.
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