Damned Blu Ray burner kicked my butt!

[Saltheart]

Decided to get a regular Dual Layer Blu Ray Burner instead of waiting for the XL burner to come down in price. i found out the Blu Ray XL discs will be $100 for one!! That's rediculous so i guess i'll settle for 50 Gb for $1 instead of 125 Gb for $100 . Is that nuts or what?

Anyway , drove myself crazy tring to get the new LG to play a Blu Ray. Got new firmware and ran it, got new drivers for my video and MB Chip set, tried 3 different software packages , killed about 12 hours and in the end i went down in defeat. I eventually norrowed it down to needing a better video card. My video is just built into the mother board. Double checked with the Dell TS and they confirmed my video card will not do Blu Ray. My real need was to burn Blu Rays since I do have a player hooked to the TV. The burner part of this LG works fine. I just need more umph for a video card to play the Blu Ray HD whatever you call it! I guess I'll start bird dogging an NVidia 1 gig or something similar. If you have patience with these things you can usually save half the cost vs needing it right away.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Saltheart

Decided to get a regular Dual Layer Blu Ray Burner instead of waiting for the XL burner to come down in price. i found out the Blu Ray XL discs will be $100 for one!! That's rediculous so i guess i'll settle for 50 Gb for $1 instead of 125 Gb for $100 . Is that nuts or what?

Anyway , drove myself crazy tring to get the new LG to play a Blu Ray. Got new firmware and ran it, got new drivers for my video and MB Chip set, tried 3 different software packages , killed about 12 hours and in the end i went down in defeat. I eventually norrowed it down to needing a better video card. My video is just built into the mother board. Double checked with the Dell TS and they confirmed my video card will not do Blu Ray. My real need was to burn Blu Rays since I do have a player hooked to the TV. The burner part of this LG works fine. I just need more umph for a video card to play the Blu Ray HD whatever you call it! I guess I'll start bird dogging an NVidia 1 gig or something similar. If you have patience with these things you can usually save half the cost vs needing it right away.

you're havin to much fun...

yeah make sure the new card has onboard memory

[basswipe]

Newegg has some good deals on video cards.

[Saltheart]

Yep I scour Newegg a lot. I also have checked out Tiger. I porefer to buy from Newegg. Interesting that most say 512 Mb of gddr5 is better than 1 Gb of DDR3. Anyway , lots of deals for 1 Gb cards from $19 to $49.

Tried to search for something from LG where they list cards known to be compatible with their drives. Couldn't find it. No hurry. Eventually i will nail something.