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System Requirements for Playing Blu-ray Discs

Playing high-definition content from a Blu-ray Disc is much more demanding on your PC resources than playing DVD movies. The following specifications are system recommendations for playing Blu-ray Discs on a PC.

Processor

Dual or quad core processors recommended

Intel (Minimum):

Pentium 4 541 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 840 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 930 3.0 GHz, 935 3.2GHz or 940 3.2 GHz, Core Duo T2400 1.83 GHz, Pentium M 755 2.0 GHz, Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8 GHz, or T5600 1.83 GHz

Intel (Recommended):

Pentium EE 840 3.2 GHz, 955 3.4 GHz or 965 3.73 GHz, Pentium D 945 3.4 GHz, 950 3.4 GHz or 960 3.6 GHz, Core Duo T2500 2.0 GHz, T2600 2.16 GHz, or T2700 2.33 GHz, Core 2 Duo E6300 1.8 GHz, E6400 2.13 GHz, E6600 2.4 GHz, E6700 2.66 GHZ or X6800 2.93 GHz, T7200 2.00 GHz, T7400 2.16 GHz, T7600 2.33 GHz, Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 GHz, Core 2 Extreme QX6700 2.66 GHz, or X6800 2.93 GHz

AMD (Minimum):

Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2.0 GHz or 4000+ 2.0 GHz, Turion 64 X2 TL-50 1.6 GHz, TL-52 1.6 GHz or TL-56 1.8 GHz

AMD (Recommended):

Athlon 64 FX FX-60 2.6 GHz or FX-62 2.8 GHz, Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz, 4400+ 2.2 GHz, 4600+ 2.4 GHz, 4800+ 2.4 GHz or 5000+ 2.6 GHz, Turion 64 X2 TL-60 2.0 GHz

System Memory (RAM)

512 MB (minimum), 1 GB or more is recommended

Disc Drive

Blu-ray Disc Optical drive, USB Blu-ray drive.

Graphics Card

It is recommended that you have one of the graphics cards with the following graphics processor unit (GPU) installed on your computer in order to play Blu-ray Disc titles.

Intel 965Ggraphics

•nVidia: GeForce 7600 GT, GeForce 7800 GTX 512, GeForce 7900 GX2, GeForce 7900 GTX, GeForce 7950 GX2, GeForce 8400 series, GeForce 8500 series, GeForce 8600 series, GeForce 8800 series

•ATI (minumum requirements): ATI Radeon X1600 series, X1800 series, X1900 series,

•ATI (recommended requirements): ATI Radeon HD 2400, 2600, 2900, 3400, 3600, 3800 series

Video RAM: Graphics card memory requires 256MB or above.

Display Devices

HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) compliant display (DVI, HDMI connections) for digital output.

TV (composite, component, S-Video) or computer monitor (VGA) for analog output

Operating System

Microsoft Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows XP

Only supports Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed

Software

PowerDVD 7 Ultra or PowerDVD 8 Ultra. Note: An easy way to determine whether your version of PowerDVD supports Blu-ray Discs is to look for the Blu-ray Disc logo on the main screen of PowerDVD. If you don’t see this logo, it is likely your version of PowerDVD doesn’t support Blu-ray Discs.

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