HD Bluray and VGA

[TheDarkMage]

okay i have a client who has a full HD monitor and full HD graohics card installed. However the graphics card has a VGA socket and DVI socket. The monitor (believe it or not) only has a VGA cable socket. He has asked me to install a blu ray drive.

Is it possible to use blu ray with only a VGA cable?

 

[Paul Rodgers]

Read this:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=472974

Basically no since VGA does not support the content protection scheme required by Blu-ray.

 

[Tom Hudson]

For Blu-Ray you require a HDCP compliant cable which is impossible on VGA. You can use DVI, HDMI or Displayport only.

Also Windows does not come with built in software to play a Blu-Ray disc. The only program I know can play a Blu-Ray disc is Cyberlink's PowerDVD Ultra which is very expensive.

 

[techfiend4]

For Blu-Ray you require a HDCP compliant cable which is impossible on VGA. You can use DVI, HDMI or Displayport only.

Also Windows does not come with built in software to play a Blu-Ray disc. The only program I know can play a Blu-Ray disc is Cyberlink's PowerDVD Ultra which is very expensive.

im not 100% sure but im building a new computer on newegg with a lg or lite on blueray player and i think it comes with powerdvd ultra ill check and repost

update: nevermind it was a lg burner that comes with powerdvd 9 3d edition from what i read it plays bluerays too not the burner

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[dbdawn]

For Blu-Ray you require a HDCP compliant cable which is impossible on VGA. You can use DVI, HDMI or Displayport only.

Also Windows does not come with built in software to play a Blu-Ray disc. The only program I know can play a Blu-Ray disc is Cyberlink's PowerDVD Ultra which is very expensive.

ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre can play blu-rays, when I did some testing a couple of years ago it seemed to do better than PowerDVD.

 

[KM@ Dave]

Is there no way of buying some sort of HD converter for the VGA cable, maybe this would be a cheap solution.

But apart from that because of the content protection it may be easier to grab a new HD compliant screen. Thing that gets me is why you would manufacture a FULL HD screen with VGA only? I have a really old non-HD TFT screen from Dell with DVI and VGA.

 

[TheDarkMage]

Thing that gets me is why you would manufacture a FULL HD screen with VGA only?

yeah its pretty ridiculous to say the least. Its a Benq e2200HDA (not the e2200HD that most sites try to pass it off as)

 

[Tom Hudson]

ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre can play blu-rays, when I did some testing a couple of years ago it seemed to do better than PowerDVD.

I will give that a try, thanks for the heads up.

I am currently using PowerDVD 9 Ultra which is very buggy. I might give ArcSoft a try.

Be careful when thinking you can use the software that comes with your Blu-Ray drive as it is almost always a trial edition.

 

[dbdawn]

I will give that a try, thanks for the heads up.

I am currently using PowerDVD 9 Ultra which is very buggy. I might give ArcSoft a try.

Be careful when thinking you can use the software that comes with your Blu-Ray drive as it is almost always a trial edition.

no problem,
To be honest I got rid of my htpc after a while and went to hardware based playback too much headache with the software, video cards, etc.. Hopefully things have changed by now

 

[AdamsAPlus]

Is there no way of buying some sort of HD converter for the VGA cable, maybe this would be a cheap solution.

But apart from that because of the content protection it may be easier to grab a new HD compliant screen. Thing that gets me is why you would manufacture a FULL HD screen with VGA only? I have a really old non-HD TFT screen from Dell with DVI and VGA.

I'm not sure they can honestly say they are HD Compliant with out DVI or HDMI. I know DVI is becoming a thing of the past because of HDMI. If I understand the technology correctly VGA is really Analog signal (DVI was suppose to be the Digital until HDMI came along) So if VGA is Analog then it can't be HD Compliant.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[ajc196]

I wonder what would happen if you had a dual display setup, main on HDMI and secondary on VGA. You played a Blu-ray on the main screen and tried to drag it over. Oh noes, black hole's gonna open.

Anywho, one more confirmation of everyone else. VGA is not HDCP compliant so it won't work.

 

[16k_zx81]

no problem,
To be honest I got rid of my htpc after a while and went to hardware based playback too much headache with the software, video cards, etc.. Hopefully things have changed by now

Yep! things have come a long way since the bad old days! Definitely worth doing now

 

[Tom Hudson]

You have inspired me to post an aritcle on my blog to help other out on this matter.

If you are interested you can find it here