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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | I bought and installed on my Desktop PC the LG bluray combo player .. ( I think it even plays back HDD too) .. I do not need to- or care to-- burn any Blue ray .,, I just want to have this $70 DVD rom player installed so it can ''see and play back'' Blue Ray dvd's .. It works fine with regular DVD's So I know it is hooked up fine .. It can even see the name ( in text) of the inserted Blue Ray Disc ...  BUT No disc ID .... as most of my screen view shows the drive as 'ghosted out' .. Came with Power dvd10 so figured maybe I should update to Powerdvd12 ( another $50) .. and I still have the same problem no reading of inserted BD disc .. Ran the program called Cyberlink BD advisor and with some screen grabs says it Failed on two areas: ( the Graphics Card I have is ATI Radeon HD 5450 ) / graphic card driver -8.982.0.0 is one and the other says I have an analog connection.. ? My digital flat screen Acer monitor has the standard 9 pin connector from video card to staright wired in back of monitor .. I don't have or use HDMI like I do in the living room ... Kinda anxious to get this puppy up and running but because it is New Years Day today most or all of support for either LG or Cyberlink Poweredvd are days behind in support help .. Thought maybe I could drop in on my friends here at Invelos for techie Help .... Thanks  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry | | | | Last edited: by widescreenforever |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,745 |
| | Posted: | | | | Without a proper HDCP protected cable you won't get to see hi-def images on your PC. But if you have the old VGA cable you should at least get the analogue picture. Have you tried to update your video driver because that seems to be the first obstacle. What you could try is installing AnyDVD HD which removes the whole Blu-ray protection crap. But then your PC has to be fast enough to decode the BR picture without support from the graphics card GPU. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | Ran a program for updates to my video driver and it states all drivers are current.. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| | Posted: | | | | running an AMD driver support at this time .. will report back with any helpful updates .. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| | Posted: | | | | ran the latest drivers over at the ATI site and they apparently installed but still get the same problem ..  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry | | | | Last edited: by widescreenforever |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | found this over at Cyberlink site:
Why can’t PowerDVD output Blu-ray Disc movies on displays using analog connections anymore?
Subject to the Analog Sunset rule, from January 2011, all Blu-ray Disc players made and sold are not allowed to output high definition(HD) content via analog connections. In other words, if your display doesn't have digital, HDCP-complaint, DVI or HDMI connections, you may not be able to watch Blu-ray Disc movies in CyberLink PowerDVD.
Copies of CyberLink PowerDVD sold before January 2011 can still output HD Blu-ray content in analog mode, but some newly released Blu-ray Disc movies may not play back due to the Analog Sunset rule. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | So now "all" you need to do is connect your monitor to your graphics card with a DVI- or a HDMI-cable.
If your monitor doesn't support any of these input methods you'd need a new monitor as well. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| | Posted: | | | | Is there anything else I can do .. or do I just need a new monitor ?? | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| | Posted: | | | | looks like then video card extensions are a 15 pin D shape ( which I am currently using) thenin the center is an hdmi out,, then next to that is a square strange pin which I'll attach a photo  here .. can that jack be rigged to my current Acer 15 pin monitor..?? | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry | | | | Last edited: by widescreenforever |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | The pink socket of your graphics card is the DVI-socket.
If your monitor has a matching socket (not necessarily of this colour, but of this shape) all you need is a new cable. If your monitor has only an analogue socket you'd need a new monitor.
There are DVI -> VGA adapters with which you could connect the digital output of your graphics card to the analogue input of your monitor, but this wouldn't be of any help, since the connection-type would be automatically downgraded to "Analogue". | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | ok thanks.... ( as I said in my opening post above.. I really only need this BD dvd rom for disc ID and quick checks for profiling don't really care about pure digital output.. my current monitor is capable of 1153 x 780 ..) didn't really want to have to buy a new upscale monitor.. )
maybe there is another alternative to cyberlinks powerdvd 12... | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry | | | | Last edited: by widescreenforever |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,745 |
| | Posted: | | | | Recognizing the disc ID should be possible at any time. Enter a Blu-ray into the drive and Windows Explorer should show you the disc's name and also the file structure. This is completely independent from the ability to actually play the video data on the disc. If Windows Explorer recognizes the disc then so will DVDP. It looks something like this:   | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,774 |
| | Posted: | | | | Which OS do you use? Older Windows versions have no compatible UDF driver that supports UDF 2.5 and above. For Win XP you need AFAIK this to let Profiler read the Disc-ID: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/UDF-Reader |
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| | Posted: | | | | Thanks Micha .. will do this very soon .. just got back from purchasing a dvi converter to analog adapter .. hope that works ..
just doing some tweaking to my setup right now.. if all all fails I have to buy a monitor with HDMI inputs .. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| | Posted: | | | | OK Update:
Installed the DVI adapter and this allows me to see and set the disc ID with Profiler .. ( hooray) .. and I can only see the photos or menu items on the screen .. No movie playback .. So I am currently in the market to find and buy a 19" or smaller monitor with HDMI input ..
they are currently around $199 ..... Yikes .. I don't want a TV set just a monitor with no tuner no speakers if need be ... | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry | | | | Last edited: by widescreenforever |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | ok found one ( bestbuy) 20in HP with DVI in ... $89.00 hope this is going to work .. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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