Dell studio 15 high definition capable?

Hi I'm new to forums, but I want to know if my laptop is capable of playing hd dvd's

I've recently bought a dell studio 15. It's got a tsstcorp dvd +-rw ts-t633a ata, Radeon hd3400 and high definition sound devices..... yet I tried to play a hd dvd and the dvd player just kept ejecting the dvd and couldn't play it.

So is it possible to play hd dvd's on my laptop? How do I do it?

 

You have a standard DVD drive. This will not play an HD-DVD, period.

 

You can get a BluRay drive for it though.

 

HD DVDs are dead. Bluray FTW

p.s. the studio 15 can play any high def content as long as you have the necessary drives

 

Like the others have said, you'll only be able to play regular DVD's in the drive that came with yours. They do offer an upgrade to a Optiarc (Sony) Blu-Ray drive that can read BD-ROM's and Read/Write DVD's and CD's.
Does any laptop maker even offer HD-DVD drives anymore?

 

Ok, thanks for that. I guess I'll have to think about an upgrade.

Cheers

 

If I get an upgrade to BlueRay and then get BlueRay dvd's is that the equivalent to high definition picture quality and sound etc or is it better?

Will my graphics card etc be able to handle BlueRay and on my 15" screen will it make a noticable difference the the picture quality?

 

One other thing, Mackievlzpro I see you have a tri-boot on one of your laptops. I want to put Ubuntu on mine. Is it a pretty straight forward installation if I have a cd with an ubuntu iso installation disk?

 

Blu-Ray is the equivalent of HD-DVD, yes. Your graphics card will be able to handle Blu-Ray, however, no, you probably won't notice a difference on a 15" screen. Especially if your screen is not natively high def (1440x900 or higher).

 

Hep, all screens on the Studio 15 count as 'high definition' - in fact, anything over 720x576 (the largest 'standard definition' resolution) is technically High Definition. I can clearly see the difference on mine when watching x264 HD rips compared to DVD, although you need a decent audio setup to really hear the difference in sound over DVD.

 

True. I wrote that post about 5 minutes after waking up, even 1280x800 is above 720p which is high def.
Just disregard that part of the post as a brain flop.

 

Thanks for your help. It's been very useful.

 

Glad to see that you are interested in Linux! Ubuntu is very nice, the latest version (8.10) works very well on my Studio 1537.
My tri-boot configuration is actually on my XPS 410, which is a desktop, not a laptop.
Installing Fedora was easy because I got a second hard drive to install it and the GRUB bootloader on, not my Windows Vista hard drive. Later, I used the Ubuntu installer to "shrink" my Vista partition and install Ubuntu on that newly freed space.
Are you going to be dual booting with Vista/Ubuntu? If you are, be wary, because the GRUB bootloader will try to write to the Master Boot Record of your hard drive. I personally havn't tried this method of installation. I suppose you might be able to use the boot loader that Vista uses, but again I have not personally tried this.
In any case, back-up all files first.
Have you tried running the live CD already?

 

Ok, Thanks.... I guess I'll just have to try it and see I've specifically not loaded much up onto the new laptop so I don't have to back it up and won't loose anything important. I'll give it a try and see what happens. O and yes I'm trying to do a vista/ubuntu dual load if it goes wrong there's always factory settings