Re: Bluray revisited

2009-12-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 20, 2009, at 8:09 PM, John Carmonne wrote: Can I just buy a player and connect my monitor to it or do I have to have aTV? You mentioned an HDMI connector? Then yes all you need is a player. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group

Re: Bluray revisited

2009-12-21 Thread John Carmonne
On Dec 21, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 20, 2009, at 8:09 PM, John Carmonne wrote: Can I just buy a player and connect my monitor to it or do I have to have aTV? You mentioned an HDMI connector? Then yes all you need is a player. -- Bruce Johnson

Re: Bluray revisited

2009-12-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 21, 2009, at 1:59 PM, John Carmonne wrote: Sounds pretty good to me, what about audio does the Bluray player connect to my stereo. Depends on the player but yeah most have at least component audio out. If your monitor has speakers, the HDMI input carries audio as well. See the

Re: Bluray revisited

2009-12-21 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 21/12/09 3:59 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Dec 21, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: You mentioned an HDMI connector? Then yes all you need is a player. Sounds pretty good to me, what about audio does the Bluray player connect to my stereo. also can I play

Re: Bluray revisited

2009-12-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 21, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Arnel Tuazon wrote: As Bruce was saying all you need is the stand-a-lone player connected to your screen via HDMI. I believe you can also use a DVI-to-HDMI adapter cable from a computer to a TV, but since there is no Blu-ray player for PPC Macs, this would

Re: Bluray revisited

2009-12-21 Thread Clark Martin
John Carmonne wrote: On Dec 21, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 20, 2009, at 8:09 PM, John Carmonne wrote: Can I just buy a player and connect my monitor to it or do I have to have aTV? You mentioned an HDMI connector? Then yes all you need is a player. Sounds pretty

Re: Bluray revisited

2009-12-21 Thread Brett M. Roby
A message from John Carmonne on 12/21/09 12:59 PM, using the e-mail carmo...@aol.com, contained the following: Sounds pretty good to me, what about audio does the Bluray player connect to my stereo. also can I play an image thru the player or is a disk necessary? John Carmonne Yorba Linda

Bluray revisited

2009-12-20 Thread John Carmonne
Hi all In have a PM G5 2.7 Dual 12 GB i can get a burner to copy and burn Bluray with however I'm told that Apple does not have a Bluray player yet. I have a Vizio 36 LCD monitor with HDMI and DVI ports what do I need top play Bluray on my Vizio? John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA 25 kids all

Re: Bluray revisited

2009-12-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 20, 2009, at 7:36 PM, John Carmonne wrote: what do I need top play Bluray on my Vizio? I don't believe Blu-ray will ever play on a PPC Mac since PPC software development is pretty much dead. If you had an Intel Mac the only way to playback Blu-ray at this time is to boot Windows 7

Re: Bluray revisited

2009-12-20 Thread John Carmonne
On Dec 20, 2009, at 7:06 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Dec 20, 2009, at 7:36 PM, John Carmonne wrote: what do I need top play Bluray on my Vizio? I don't believe Blu-ray will ever play on a PPC Mac since PPC software development is pretty much dead. If you had an Intel Mac the only way

Re: Bluray revisited

2009-12-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 20, 2009, at 9:06 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: I also believe you can rip them on your PPC Mac, and once ripped, play the converted .mkv file: http://makemkv.com/ OOPS! I'll correct myself, this doesn't work on PPC, it's Intel only also. Sorry. -- You received this message because you

Re: Bluray revisited

2009-12-20 Thread John Carmonne
On Dec 20, 2009, at 7:09 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Dec 20, 2009, at 9:06 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: I also believe you can rip them on your PPC Mac, and once ripped, play the converted .mkv file: http://makemkv.com/ OOPS! I'll correct myself, this doesn't work on PPC, it's Intel only