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2.4 Playing Blu-ray movies
To play a Blu-ray movie on your computer, there are several things you will need in addition to your
Kanguru Blu-ray drive. First you will need Blu-ray playback software and HDCP supported hardware.
important!
Due to copyright protection features, certain requirements must be met in order to
playback BD movies on a computer. When using digital video connections, both your monitor and
graphics card must support High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). Please refer to your
monitor or graphic card manufacturer’s web site to see if your hardware supports HDCP.
Some video cards that currently support HDCP:
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nVIDIA: GeForce 7800 GTX 512 / 7900 GT / 7900 GX2 / 7900 GTX / 7950 GX2 / 8600 GS /
8600 GT / 8600 GTS / 8800 GTX or higher with 256MB min memory.
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ATI: Radeon® X1950/ HD2300/ HD2400/ HD2600 series or higher with 256MB min memory.
Graphic card driver shall meet AACS compliance criteria. Please consult your graphics card vendor
for proper driver solution.
Certain software (i.e. particularly those including Video playback) may require a considerably
increased performance PC to provide acceptable results. While this Blu-ray drive can read DVD-
video or BD-MV(BD-ROM) discs, decoding them for display requires separate MPEG, H.264 or
VC-1 decoding that is done by separate hardware (either an MPEG, H.264 or VC-1 decoder card or
MPEG, H.264 or VC-1 decoding done by your video card), or separate software that you install to do
MPEG, H.264 or VC-1 decoding.
Note:
Apple has not officially supported Blu-ray playback in Mac OS X yet. There are several software
solutions that allow you to write to Blu-ray discs, but no applications for playback of HDCP video.
General Operation
