LG CH12, Owner'S Manual

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Operating Environment

This unit can be operated in the system environment explained here.

System Environment

* Compatibility problem in write/read function may occur with media depending on the media 

manufacturing quality.

* There may be some cases when motion picture playback is not smooth depending on bit rate.
* When using LightScribe function on Windows Vista, higher Vista Service Pack 1 must be installed.

• 

Playing Blu-ray Disc Movies  *NOTICE*

Due to copyright protection features, certain requirements must be met in order to playback BD movies on a
computer. When using digital video connections, the monitor and graphics card must support 
High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). Note that most monitors and graphics cards currently don’t
support HDCP. But, most High Definition TVs and multimedia monitors do support HDCP. Refer to the PC or
graphic card maker’s web site to see if your card supports HDCP. 

Some video cards that currently support HDCP:
- nVIDIA: GeForce 7800 GTX 512 / 7900 GT / 7900 GX2 / 7900 GTX / 7950 GX2 / 8600 GS / 8600 GT / 

8600 GTS / 8800 GTX or higher with 256MB min memory.

- ATI: Radeon® HD2300/ HD2400/ HD2600 series or higher with 256MB min memory.

*When using ATI Radeon

TM  

HD 1000 Series Graphic Card, some BLURAY movie title can not be played on

Windows7 normally. It caused by giving up supporting the device driver of this Graphic Card by ATI Radeon

TM

.

For more information, Please contact to customer service center or website of ATI Radeon

TM

.

*1 

Graphic card driver shall meet AACS compliance criteria. Please consult your graphics card vendor for proper
driver solution.

*2 

HDCP (High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection): Required to view pre-recoded Blu-ray Disc which are copy
protected.

• CPU : Pentium D 3.2 GHz or higher (Motherboard that supports SATA.)

(Recommended Core 2 Duo E6600 or higher.)

• O/S : Windows 7 / Windows XP (Home / Professional / Media Center

Edition) with SP2 or higher / Windows Vista (X86, X64) SP1 or higher 

• RAM : 1 GB or more
• HDD : 30 GB or more of available space
Serial ATA
13.34 cm (5.25”) half-height bay required
+5 V/+12 V power socket required

DVD-R

: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Taiyo Yuden.

DVD-RW

: JVC, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media.

DVD+R

: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim.

DVD+RW

: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim.

DVD±R DL

: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim.

DVD-RAM

: Maxell.

CD-R 

: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden or TDK. 

CD-RW

: LG, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatim.

System 
requirements

Interface
Drive bay
Power
Recommended
media manufacturer

Graphic Card 

Monitor

Driver

Interface

HDCP

*2

Interface

HDCP

Resolution

DVI or HDMI

Compliant

DVI or HDMI

Compliant

1024x768

or more

(Recommended

: 1920x1080)

AACS 

*1

Compliant

Digital