Hardware Requirements
For Blu-ray to work properly, both software and hardware must meet several requirements. A description of these requirements is below. A
Dell™ Blu-ray Disc system cannot be purchased without these requirements.
Table 47. System Requirements
Requirement Device/Specication
Desktops Notebooks
Processor
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6800 (2.93
GHz)
or Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6700 (2.66
GHz)
or Kentseld
Intel Core 2 Duo T7100 (1.8 GHz) or better
Graphics card Intel Core 2 Duo T7100 (1.8 GHz) or better Intel Core 2 Duo T7100 (1.8 GHz) or better
Memory 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM
RMSD drive Philips® half-height drive Panasonic® Slim-line drive
Software
Playback: Cyberlink®
Burn and authoring: Sonic/Roxio
Video Codecs: MPEG2, MPEG4-AVC, VC-1 - must
be capable of H.264 HW accel
Audio Codecs: LPCM, Dolby®, Dolby Digital +,
Dolby Lossless, DTS™, DTS-HD™
Display
20-inch high-denition at panel (HDFP) -
2007FPW
24-inch high-denition at panel (HDFP) -
2407FPW
Must have HDCP** support with digital
connectors
WSXGA+ (1680x1050)
WUXGA (1920x1200)
There are a few possible proles for Blu-ray; they are Standard and BD Live.
Table 48. Blue-ray
Proles
Standard BD Live (Not yet available)
Functionality
Large back-up device
Blu-ray video playback
Blu-ray video authoring
Standard Prole + Picture-in-Picture
Internet connectivity
Local storage
System requirements
Drive
Graphics/CPU combination sucient to
handle BD
Standard Prole + Hardware-accelerated
graphics
System storage
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