http://www.blu-ray1st.com/blu-ray/can-my-pc-play-blu-ray-discs-already-or-is-there-more-to-it-than-that/ Blu-ray1st, the next-generation optical disc storage Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:03:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.blu-ray1st.com/blu-ray/can-my-pc-play-blu-ray-discs-already-or-is-there-more-to-it-than-that/comment-page-1/#comment-3202 Dean B Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:26:56 +0000 http://www.blu-ray1st.com/can-my-pc-play-blu-ray-discs-already-or-is-there-more-to-it-than-that/#comment-3202 You need a Blu-Ray drive. these can be expensive and only appear on a few top of the range PC's. So you would have to have specifiaclaly bought a PC with a Blu-Ray player in it. It appears in the Autoplay menu on all Vista PC's, because Vista support's Blu-Ray and HD-DVD playback (XP doesn't out of the box). On the front of your disc drive it should be labelled with BD with a kinda swoosh around it for the Blu-Ray logo. You also need a HDCP complaint graphics card and monitor, but most modern ones are, so that shouldn't be a problem. You need a Blu-Ray drive. these can be expensive and only appear on a few top of the range PC’s. So you would have to have specifiaclaly bought a PC with a Blu-Ray player in it.
It appears in the Autoplay menu on all Vista PC’s, because Vista support’s Blu-Ray and HD-DVD playback (XP doesn’t out of the box).
On the front of your disc drive it should be labelled with BD with a kinda swoosh around it for the Blu-Ray logo. You also need a HDCP complaint graphics card and monitor, but most modern ones are, so that shouldn’t be a problem.

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