I know there are a lot of new hardware requirements to playback UHD on the PC. I use PowerDVD 2017 and ISOs for all my movies.
My basic and I’m sure not 100% correct understanding is that you need:
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Operating System
Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit with 2015 Nov. updates)
CPU
Intel 7th generation (Kaby Lake) Core i processors and above that support the Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) technology.
Graphics Processor
Intel 7th generation (Kaby Lake) Core i processors integrated with Intel HD Graphics 630, Intel Iris™ Graphics 640 or above.
Ultra HD Blu-ray is supported only if a display is powered by Intel Graphics and supports HDCP 2.2. If your computer includes more than one graphics processor, Ultra HD Blu-ray is supported only on the display that is connected and powered by Intel Graphics.
Mainboard
(Motherboard)
A mainboard is required which supports the Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) technology.
The Intel SGX feature needs to be enabled in the BIOS* settings, and allocated with 128 MB or above memory space.
To output Ultra HD Blu-ray movies to an external display, the connection port embedded on the mainboard must support HDCP 2.2.
For laptop PCs, please refer to the specification of your laptop to see if the external display connection (HDMI/DisplayPort) supports HDCP 2.2 output.
Display
[Display Device] (Required)
Display device with HDMI 2.0a/DisplayPort 1.3 or above connection interface, and must support HDCP 2.2.
[Display Cable] (Required)
HDMI 2.0a/DisplayPort 1.3 or above version cable without applying any adapters/splitters/repeaters.
[Screen Resolution] (Optional)
Ultra HD resolution (3840 x 2160) or above recommended.
[High Dynamic Range (HDR)] (Optional)
To enable the High Dynamic Range (HDR) of Ultra HD Blu-ray movie, the display device must support the HDR display feature and 10-bit color depth display capability with a HDMI 2.0a/DisplayPort 1.4 connection interface.
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And all that above being said AnyDVD will not bypass any of it and nothing can pass Dolby Vison or HDR? I thought the HDR would be much like various HD Audio streams and just passed along to the HDR compliant TV?
I got an UHD friendly ASUS BW-16D1HT and downgrade the firmware to 3.02 but have not tried a UHD disc yet.
The biggest issue for me right now is that I read you need to use an MKV file to get passed the new hardware requirements and its not working so well for me with a few test HD Blurays and CloneBD. VLC gets a garbled screen and will not play the HD Blurays MKV file. PowerDVD 2017 will play the MKV file but the audio gets out of sync repeatedly and there is some shuddering or little pauses also when changing audio tracks it gets stuck and won’t play the HD audio track unless you swap to other tracks a few times and the show info to see the audio and video info don’t work. The last one is not that bad but helps find the HD audio track. The same movies in an ISO have none of the issues in PowerDVD.
Is PowerDVD 2018 better at MKVs? Do you really need to get an NVIDIA Shield or something? I’ve always liked using my PC for everything and having it hooked up to the TV to watch Blurays and such. Why do you need another device? What is the setup like?
My system:
I7-3930k
64GB RAM
AMD Vega 64
Clean install of Windows 10 all updates
PowerDVD 2017 17.0.1801.60
CloneBD 1.2.3.0
VLC 3.0.4
My basic and I’m sure not 100% correct understanding is that you need:
__________________________________________________________________
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit with 2015 Nov. updates)
CPU
Intel 7th generation (Kaby Lake) Core i processors and above that support the Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) technology.
Graphics Processor
Intel 7th generation (Kaby Lake) Core i processors integrated with Intel HD Graphics 630, Intel Iris™ Graphics 640 or above.
Ultra HD Blu-ray is supported only if a display is powered by Intel Graphics and supports HDCP 2.2. If your computer includes more than one graphics processor, Ultra HD Blu-ray is supported only on the display that is connected and powered by Intel Graphics.
Mainboard
(Motherboard)
A mainboard is required which supports the Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) technology.
The Intel SGX feature needs to be enabled in the BIOS* settings, and allocated with 128 MB or above memory space.
To output Ultra HD Blu-ray movies to an external display, the connection port embedded on the mainboard must support HDCP 2.2.
For laptop PCs, please refer to the specification of your laptop to see if the external display connection (HDMI/DisplayPort) supports HDCP 2.2 output.
Display
[Display Device] (Required)
Display device with HDMI 2.0a/DisplayPort 1.3 or above connection interface, and must support HDCP 2.2.
[Display Cable] (Required)
HDMI 2.0a/DisplayPort 1.3 or above version cable without applying any adapters/splitters/repeaters.
[Screen Resolution] (Optional)
Ultra HD resolution (3840 x 2160) or above recommended.
[High Dynamic Range (HDR)] (Optional)
To enable the High Dynamic Range (HDR) of Ultra HD Blu-ray movie, the display device must support the HDR display feature and 10-bit color depth display capability with a HDMI 2.0a/DisplayPort 1.4 connection interface.
_______________________________________________________________________________________
And all that above being said AnyDVD will not bypass any of it and nothing can pass Dolby Vison or HDR? I thought the HDR would be much like various HD Audio streams and just passed along to the HDR compliant TV?
I got an UHD friendly ASUS BW-16D1HT and downgrade the firmware to 3.02 but have not tried a UHD disc yet.
The biggest issue for me right now is that I read you need to use an MKV file to get passed the new hardware requirements and its not working so well for me with a few test HD Blurays and CloneBD. VLC gets a garbled screen and will not play the HD Blurays MKV file. PowerDVD 2017 will play the MKV file but the audio gets out of sync repeatedly and there is some shuddering or little pauses also when changing audio tracks it gets stuck and won’t play the HD audio track unless you swap to other tracks a few times and the show info to see the audio and video info don’t work. The last one is not that bad but helps find the HD audio track. The same movies in an ISO have none of the issues in PowerDVD.
Is PowerDVD 2018 better at MKVs? Do you really need to get an NVIDIA Shield or something? I’ve always liked using my PC for everything and having it hooked up to the TV to watch Blurays and such. Why do you need another device? What is the setup like?
My system:
I7-3930k
64GB RAM
AMD Vega 64
Clean install of Windows 10 all updates
PowerDVD 2017 17.0.1801.60
CloneBD 1.2.3.0
VLC 3.0.4
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