Notice For Blu-Ray Optical Drives; Blu-Ray Movie Playback; Blu-Ray Movie Playback Compatibility And Update - HP Z210 Series User Manual

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Notice for Blu-ray optical drives

If you installed a Blu-ray optical drive, note the following:

As Blu-ray is a new format containing new technologies, certain disc, digital connection, compatibility

and/or performance issues may arise, and do not constitute defects in the product. Flawless playback

on all systems is not guaranteed. In order for some Blu-ray titles to play, they may require a DVI, HDMI,

or DisplayPort digital connection and your display may require HDCP support. HD-DVD movies cannot

be played on this workstation.

Playing back Blu-ray HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) content such as commercially

distributed Blu-ray HD movies requires a fully HDCP compliant path on your computer. The HDCP

technology checks compliance of each component in the path from the content on the Blu-ray disc all

the way to the display monitor, including but not limited to graphic cards and monitor adapters.

HP Z Workstations have been designed with this in mind; nearly all configurations with currently

available HP Professional Displays are compliant. Older HP xw4600 and xw9400 Workstation

configurations may not have fully compliant paths based on the installed graphics card and display

monitor; HP recommends confirming separately that you have a fully compliant system if commercial

content playback is a requirement for your use. HDCP compatibility of your graphics card and monitor

can be determined by checking the QuickSpecs at http://www.hp.com/go/productbulletin.

For the best HDCP performance, HP recommends that you install the latest updates:

Blu-ray player firmware

Playback application patches

Graphics firmware and drivers (note that the Intel HD graphics family does not support Blu-ray

movie playback on Windows XP nor on Linux.)

Updates are located on the support web site for your specific product at

workstations.

ENWW

http://www.hp.com/support/

Notice for Blu-ray optical drives

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