Out of this article I was wondering if by having a radeon with avivo is enough to read and decrypt HD-DVD and Blu-Ray movie or we still need to have the drive?
You still need to have a Blue-Ray or HD-DVD drive installed on your system. While AVIVO (never personally tested) can decode it, you need the drive to read the disc in the first place.
Well if he has a 'back-up' on his HDD he should be able to read it without the drive, but otherwise I don't see how you would get the content into the playback stream.
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