Today we announced that the XPS M1710 is available to order with a Blu-ray optical drive. It’s our first system that will ship with one of these drives.
In their article, Gizmodo shows a picture of the software app we’ll use for Blu-ray playback, Cyberlink’s PowerDVD 6.6 BD. I checked with members of the audio team to confirm that we’ll support the following audio formats:
- Dolby Digital
- DTS
- LPCM 192/24
- Dolby Digital+
- Dolby TrueHD
- DTS-HD
- Dolby Digital+ LBR
- Dolby Digital
All formats above are supported via software codecs and can be processed by the system and passed from the PC via the S/PDIF interface to an external amplifier/receiver. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the XPS M1710 notebook, this vlog is a good overview.