With Blu-Ray as the next gen high definition video format, playing Blu-Ray movies on your PC will surely require a fair amount of processing power and graphics acceleration to render the high definition content. Unless you are having an ages old computer, your computer should be able to play any DVD video, but what about Blu-Ray?

CyberLink has created a tool named Blu-Ray Disc Advisor that lets you check whether your system will be able to play Blu-Ray Disc or not. If you would like to check your PC for Blu-Ray support, download and install it and run the scan.

Results are divided into two parts, Basic and Advanced. Basic Playback tells that whether you’ll be able to playback Blu-Ray discs or not and Advanced Playback tells about whether your hardware supports advanced Blu-Ray features like Picture-in-picture and Internet interaction built within some Blu-Ray movies.

[via: gHacks]