can my Acer Laptop with a GeForce 8400 GS run blu-ray movies at 720p or higher.?
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want to know before I buy the drive for it so I can blu-ray movies on my Laptop
I do believe it can, yes.
also will the sound be great.?
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;30502593]also will the sound be great.?[/QUOTE]
.....maybe?
Sort of depends on what you use for speakers. If you use the laptop's internal ones, no, its not going to be as good as a pair of headphones or using a surround sound system. If you tell us nothing about how you have it set up, we can't really tell you anything.
I've ran 1080p with VLC (with DirectX hardware-acceleration) on a 8400GS.
using headphones sorry
I ran 720p movies on an integrated video card, it's no biggie.
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;30502798]using headphones sorry[/QUOTE]
Then its entirely up to your headphones. The actual laptop itself will output the best possible sound it can. Its not like its going to magically degrade it because your on a laptop rather than a dedicated set-top player (I wouldn't be surprised if the MPAA did something like that though for a DRM scheme).
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;30502798]using headphones sorry[/QUOTE]
Depends how good the laptop's sound card is - probably not great.
but not shit
[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;30503110]Depends how good the laptop's sound card is - probably not great.[/QUOTE]
is this 1997
my sound blaster can't handle all of this audio!!!
[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;30503110]Depends how good the laptop's sound card is - probably not great.[/QUOTE]
You'll be okay as long as your sound card supports 44.1 Khz Stereo audio. I hear they even have 48 Khz nowadays!
[QUOTE=Cheesemonkey;30503612]is this 1997
my sound blaster can't handle all of this audio!!![/QUOTE]
SNR etc.
Depends if the headphones are good enough to notice a difference of course.
Shitty 1080p 8-10GB movies =/= Blueray
Don't think that it will handle it very well.
[QUOTE=Djessey;30505885]Shitty 1080p 8-10GB movies =/= Blueray
Don't think that it will handle it very well.[/QUOTE]
I convert my Blu-Ray movies to 3.99GB MKV files, keeping the 5.1 DTS and x.264 video @720p with 2 passes... and it comes out looking excellent quality... Closer to Blu-ray than DVD by far. My 8400GS handles playback just fine with hardware acceleration enabled in VLC.
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