Mar. 1st, 2010 08:33 am
I can has Blu-Ray
I now have a Blu-Ray drive in my home theater PC and it's working well  for the most part.  Actually, the drive is working perfectly but the Blu-Ray software (Cyberlink PowerDVD) may be down-sampling the image when playing a  Blu-Ray disc.  When I launch the player and start playing the disc, it comes  up in a window smaller than the screen which has a resolution of  1360x768 or similar, even though the resolution of the content should be at least 720p and probably 1080p.  This  is likely because the computer is connected to the TV with a VGA cable.   I plan to get an HDMI cable soon so there will be the full HDCP path  between the video card and the TV.  Even so, it looks pretty good.  The  drive came with the OEM version of PowerDVD 8 but I'll probably spring  for the full version of PowerDVD 9 as it integrates with Windows Media  Center and has additional features.  The upgrade is 50 bucks which isn't  too bad.