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    Playing HD Dvds with my Laptop (Asus G1, the old version)

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by ashveratu, Aug 18, 2007.

  1. ashveratu

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    I recently purchased an Xbox 360 HD dvd player because duh, I want to watch HD movies. Since I already had a Dell 24" LCD which is more than capable of displaying 1080p, all I needed was the drive and software on the lappy. Oh the fun I had.

    Installing the drive was a snap, I let windows XP do it's automated search and blamo, drivers installed.

    Finding a HD dvd player. The 2 that I know of out there are Cyberlink Powerdvd Ultra 7.3 and Intervideo (there are others, I just don't know em). Since I have an Asus which comes with Cyberlink Powerdvd director 6 (cleverly branded as Asusdvd) I figured I would try it first. It costs about $99.99 to download it......ouch. If you decide to the go the bit torrent route, warning, nearly every version out there has mad viruses and trojans seeded at the begining of the installation process. At least from what I hear and read. SO make sure your AV is up to date...

    Once you have an HD player installed and you have a system like mine that is not HDCP compliant, something extra is needed. AnyDvd will cure your non-HDCP woes. You can download it for free and will last 21 days at which time you will have to pay I think $30 for it. Not bad at all considering this lets you play HD video without buying new gear to play it on (aside from the HD dvd drive). When AnyDvd is installed it will scan the HD dvd drive, identify the disc in it and now Cyberlink will play it with no worries, unless your video card's drivers are not up to date. Which mine were not...

    The HD dvd started playing and looked amazing, for about 10 seconds. Then is started stuttering and came grinding to a halt. I guessed it must be my video card drivers (which I was right, just didn't know it at the time). I first checked online with Asus and I had the current driver they supplied already installed. Next I went to laptopvideo2go. I started working my way up the driver food chain and stopped on version 163.15. Once I had the new drivers installed and rebooted, HD played flawlessly (have yet to play any games with these drivers yet, so....). Not only does it look great on the 24" monitor, it looks damn nice on the laptop screen as well.
     
    ashveratu, Aug 18, 2007
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