I purchased an Acer Aspire 6930 laptop a few months ago. It is a really nice laptop, albeit quite heavy, but very suitable for my multimedia needs.
So when “Dark Knight” came out on blu-ray, I was all giddy and ready to go and view those cool scenes taken with an IMAX camera. (If you have seen the movie at IMAX the scenes usually pertain to the outdoor city scenes of Hong Kong and Chicago. Just breathtaking! to the point that I felt a bit disoriented.)
Anyway, it turns out that I had deleted my blu-ray player on my laptop, because I wasn’t too happy with all the extras that came with it. (My fault.) Anyway, I looked around and Nero 9 seemed to be a solution. Since I needed some DVD burning software and it said that it had blu-ray capability, I waited for boxing day and got a good deal. Well, it turns out, the Nero player doesn’t play blu-ray. Wierd. It can burn and play home HD movies onto blu-ray discs. (And no, my drive only reads blu-ray, not write.) So here we go again. So far the only players I found out were:
3) Arcsoft’s Totalmedia Theatre
After reading many reviews, it seems that PowerDVD and WinDVD are comparable and does take advantage of the latest graphics card acceleartion from both ATI and NVidia.
TotalMedia caught my attention as it also provides a plugin for Microsoft’s mediacenter player.
As for Nero 9, the best that I find is to wait upon a software update. It seems that the software industry is waiting out for a standard DRM convention.
As for a Blu-ray player, I haven’t decided on a purchase yet. Looks like I will be waiting a little while longer before I get to finally see “Dark Knight”. Besides, I am busy with other projects.
Have a happy new year…
DJ