Commercial BD-ROM Playback with BWU-100A launched By Sony
Sony announced that its recently launched BWU-100A Blu-ray burner can playback commercial Blu-ray movies. The Sony BWU-100A Blu-ray Disc rewritable drive can record up to 50GB of data or about 230 minutes of HDV1080i video on double layer 50 GB BD-RE recordable media. It can also record DVD and CD discs. All this can be done thanks to a new software update for the included copy of Cyberlink PowerDVD. The new software update which will be released in October will be available as a free download to BWU-100A owners by Sony.
Even though Cyberlink will be releasing the software update to enable Blu-ray movie playback on PCs, a reasonably powered PC is still necessary. Nonetheless, systems equipped with ATI Radeon X1000 series or NVIDIA GeForce 7 series video cards should have no troubles with Blu-ray DVD playback as the cards support hardware decoding of H.264 videos—one of the formats used by Blu-ray movies. Owing to DRM restrictions, Blu-ray movies will not playback via DVI if the video card and display aren’t HDCP compliant. Cyberlink suggests users with non-HDCP compliant DVI video cards and display connect displays using an analog d-sub connector.
A system advisory tool that scans systems for Blu-ray playback capabilities is available from Cyberlink. It is yet not been revealed if other drive manufacturers will offer the update to its users.
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