Watching blu-ray movies on mac pro?

Hello,
I have a 3.0 Harpertown Mac Pro and was wondering how the performance is when watching a 1080p blu-ray movie using windvd under windows 7? My current video card is the ATI Radeon 4870 Mac edition and my monitor is the 24 inch cinema display with isight.
I just purchased from owc an internal blu-ray drive. I have really been spending my money on middle of the summer clothing rather than more memory on my mac pro. My current mac pro memory is at 2GB. With the video card I have + monitor and memory, will I be able to power a 1080p blu-ray movie?

I play Blu Ray movies on my Mac Pro (early 2009, 16 GB RAM) w/MCE Blu Ray drive and an ATI HD 4870 video card. I use Vista Ultimate and Corel WinDVD 9 Plus w/Blu Ray to play them and the quality is superb.
I don't know what the minimum RAM would be but I'd guess that 2GB would give questionable results.
Good luck.

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