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System requirements

Operating Environment

This unit can be operated in the system environment explained here.

* Compatibility problem in write/read function may occur with media depending on the media
manufacturing quality.
* There may be some cases when motion picture playback is not smooth depending on bit rate.
• Playing Blu-ray Movies *NOTICE*
Due to copyright protection features, certain requirements must be met in order to playback BD
movies on a computer. When using digital video connections, the monitor and graphics card must
support High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). Note that most monitors and graphics
cards currently don’t support HDCP. But, most High Definition TVs and multimedia monitors do
support HDCP. Refer to the PC or graphic card maker’s web site to see if your card supports HDCP.
Some video cards that currently support HDCP:
- nVIDIA: GeForce 7800 GTX 512 / 7900 GT/ 7900 GX2 / 7900 GTX / 7950 GX2 / 8600 GS / 8600
GT/ 8600 GTS / 8800 GTX or higher with 256MB min memory.
- ATI: Radeon®X1950/ HD2300/ HD2400/ HD2600 series or higher with 256MB min memory.
*1 Graphic card driver shall meet AACS compliance criteria. Please consult your graphics card vendor
for proper driver solution.
*2 HDCP(High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection): Required to view pre-recoded Blu-ray Discs
which are copy protected.
• CPU :
Pentium D 3.2 GHz or higher (Recommended Core 2 Duo
E6300 or higher.)
• O/S : Windows XP(Home / Professional / Media Center Edition)
with SP2/ Windows Vista (X86, X64)
• RAM : 1GB or more
•
HDD : 30GB or more of available space (60GB for Blu-ray Disc authoring)
USB 2.0 port
BD-R: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Maxell, TDK.
BD-RE: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Maxell, Sony, Panasonic.
DVD-R: Maxell, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Taiyo.
DVD-RW: JVC, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media.
DVD+R: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim.
DVD+RW: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim.
DVD±R DL: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim.
DVD-RAM: Maxell.
CD-R : LG, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden TDK.
CD-RW: LG, Ricoh, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim.
System
requirements
Interface
Recommended
media
manufacturer
Graphic Card Monitor
VGA
(D-SUB)
VGA
(D-SUB)
Not
required
Not
required
1024x768
or more
(Recommended
: 1920x1080)
AACS
*1
Compliant
Analog
Digital
Driver
Interface HDCP
*2
Interface HDCP Resolution
DVI or HDMI Compliant DVI or HDMI Compliant