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<blockquote data-quote="Shivian" data-source="post: 255403" data-attributes="member: 60804">You most certainly will but that's just the start of the battle. You'll also need a media player capable of handling blu-ray encrypted content (PowerDVD seems to be leading the way there). As new blu-ray disc profiles come out, you may lack support for a period of time though while PowerDVD updates to handle the new formats.HD DVD handling is going to be a problem. From what I hear, PowerDVD dropped support for HD-DVD in PowerDVD 8.x. It was in PowerDVD 7.3. One solution is to rip your HD-DVD discs to ISO files and play them off your HDD.I don't know the status of HDCP playback in mediaportal I'm sorry. It seems to support h.264 playback fine when you have the right codecs but if you want to play blu-ray/hd-dvd movies, that is something else! I don't have HDCP setup on my system because I am waiting for pc HDCP support to stabilise (particularly the way they handle audio over HDMI and the software support is still sketchy).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shivian, post: 255403, member: 60804"] You most certainly will but that's just the start of the battle. You'll also need a media player capable of handling blu-ray encrypted content (PowerDVD seems to be leading the way there). As new blu-ray disc profiles come out, you may lack support for a period of time though while PowerDVD updates to handle the new formats. HD DVD handling is going to be a problem. From what I hear, PowerDVD dropped support for HD-DVD in PowerDVD 8.x. It was in PowerDVD 7.3. One solution is to rip your HD-DVD discs to ISO files and play them off your HDD. I don't know the status of HDCP playback in mediaportal I'm sorry. It seems to support h.264 playback fine when you have the right codecs but if you want to play blu-ray/hd-dvd movies, that is something else! I don't have HDCP setup on my system because I am waiting for pc HDCP support to stabilise (particularly the way they handle audio over HDMI and the software support is still sketchy). [/QUOTE]

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