new to hd-dvd

[towncarblue]

i recently made a backup of the movie SWORDFISH[hd-dvd] to my pc. i got windvd 8 platinum.
how do i get windvd platinum to play the files on my pc? which file is it supposed to load up?
ive found good tutorials for backing up hd-dvd but i cant find any on playback options.

[Baldrick]

I think you need the japanese version of windvd 8. Or else try PowerDVD Ultra 7 or PowerDVD 6.5.

[towncarblue]

would those programs play the movie in full quality

[jman98]

The standard American version of Windvd 8 won't play HD-DVD. You do need the Japanese one. In theory Windvd will eventually release a version in the rest of the world that will play HD-DVD, but your guess is as good as mine as to when that will be. PowerDVD 6.5 does support HD-DVD - I know that for a fact. I assume PowerDVD Ultra 7 will too.

They are capable of 1080p playback. You need a monitor that also supports it. My PC monitor only does 720p and I can tell from personal experience that 1080i or 1080p stuff sucks on my 3200+ AMD PC because it has to be scaled down to 720p and it's not very fast. If you play ripped HD-DVDs, people claim that it will play in 1080p. If you try to play from a disc, PowerDVD and Windvd apparently check to see if the signal is going out over HDMI (maybe DMI too - not sure though) and if not, they downgrade the signal to some resolution a little under 720p. This is supposedly why the first HD-DVD ripper was created. The author said that he was angry that his software degraded the image just because he didn't have a video card that supported HDMI. Output over DMI might possibly not be degraded for play from disc, but I have no way to test this. So in theory you should be able to play from your hard disc at 1080p if your monitor supports it.

[towncarblue]

i got a 20inch widescreen monitor. i got a 7950gt hdcp.
my monitor is not hdcp , but my home tv is , thats where im gonna hook up the dvi out from the videocard

[towncarblue]

just got powerdvd v7 . what file do i have to open in order to play my backed up files [on the HARD DRIVE]

[towncarblue]

bump

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[stan123]

PowerDVD is good.

[guns1inger]

PowerDVD is good.

Umm . . . thanks for sharing ?

You should be able to navigate to the folder on your HDD and play, as you do for DVD - at least according to the manual.

[towncarblue]

for some reason , powerdvd 7 ultra, is not recognizing my videocard as hdcp compliant [7950gt ko superclocked EVGA].
its not recognizing the driver . and the videocard is UNKnOWN

[edDV]

for some reason , powerdvd 7 ultra, is not recognizing my videocard as hdcp compliant

That is because it isn't. Talk to the card manufacturer. Most won't take them back.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/13/ati-and-nvidias-hdcp-support-video-cards-dont-support-hdcp/

[towncarblue]

power dvd is not even recognizing the videocard [using BD advisor]. it shows the name of the videocard [7950gt] but it has a grey dot next to it [unknown]