Doing it on the laptop is fine I guess so long as it sounds good, and hopefully you don't run into the BDs that have BDJ menus that don't allow the use of a mouse because then if you are watching a moveie that's brand new to you, you can't even go to the bathroom or you'll miss it. Like I said once here, this is how I plan to do BDs on a Media Center PC, but Cyber link are no friends of accessibility. I mean, with all the harry Potter BDs I can do some things but in a long way going into menus and everything. But, if you are watching something like Jurrasic Park, or any other BD that has BDJ menus that don't allow the use of a mouse supposedly, you had better have someone sighted at hand to be even able to pause it. This is why I hope that Windows 8 will support BDs natively. WMP and WMC are just so much easyer to use. But yeah, you're doing exactly what I plan to do Dain, accept I'd do it with a desk top. I mean, how did it sound on your HP laptop? My Toshiba can do it but it heats up, and it does kind of depreciate the audio a bit because it's sound processer isn't the best. Even if I use my Bose Companion 5 speakers you can tell it does it. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dane trethowan Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 11:28 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List 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. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
