We inserted Casino Royale on Blu-ray and Windows Vista Autoplay picked it up and had it playing in one click.
Acer's Aspire M5630 uses a combination DVD-RW (+/-R DL)/BRD/HD-DVD-ROM drive to allow users the freedom to watch any high-definition movie from either format, without a second thought.Īcer's Acerplay software takes care of everything for you. What this system offers is the ability to read high-definition media from both sides of the camp. Each format has its own posse of backers, and we're looking at a situation where one movie release might be on Blu-ray only, while another will be on HD-DVD. Then there are the studios and other organisations to consider.
On the other side there's HD-DVD, which can only store 15GB per single-layer disc, but costs less to make. On one side there's Blu-ray, which offers greater storage capacities (25GB for a single-layer disc), but costs more per disc to manufacture, and is also considered to be a more fragile physical media. No doubt this situation is far from ideal for Sony and Toshiba, but it's also left us, the end-user, in a state of confusion. Both formats use essentially the same technology (a blue-violet laser, rather than the red laser in DVD players, with a shorter wave-length), but vary enough to make them both competitive choices as the replacement for the current DVD technology. Two different formats have sprung from this necessity, HD-DVD created by Toshiba, and Blu-ray created by a conglomerate lead by Sony. Movies filmed at high resolutions (up to 1920x1080) with high quality digital audio require considerably more storage space than a DVD can hold. Not unlike the rest of us, it seems that Acer has become tired of waiting for the high-definition format war to end and has released the Acer Aspire M5630 desktop PC, a quad-core machine with a combination Blu-ray/HD-DVD drive - nullifying the need to make a choice between the two competing formats.
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