Windows 7 Media player will not play back BluRay disc's

I have had issues for years trying to play blu-ray discs. This is with the most popular software intended to play these discs, Power DVD 11. I had so much trouble with stuttering sound and dropped frames that I gave up and just bought a blu-ray player and plugged it into my screen. No more problems. All blu-rays play perfectly. Maybe in ten years Microsoft will get around to doing this.

I too had trouble with CyberLink's PowerDVD 11 Ultra, reputedly the best and most popular Blu-ray software player. When I tried watching X-Men: First Class with an earlier version of this software (PowerDVD 9 Ultra), I was told that my software was no longer being supported by updates and that to watch the movie I would need to upgrade. The upgrade, PowerDVD 11 Ultra, cost about seventy bucks--not cheap--and it crashed my system, not only with X-Men: First Class, but with two successive newly released Blu-rays, Limitless and The Adjustment Bureau. And I don't mean back-to-desktop crashes, I mean total system shutdowns, requiring me to switch my PC's power button off & on in order to reboot.

Eventually I bathed in the same light of revelation as did JohnHarrill, the above poster.

I bought a BD-player.

I couldn't use it with my LCD monitor, which had connectors only for my video card, whereas the BD-player had an HDMI connector. I could have bought a DVI-HDMI converter, but I still would have needed something for sound. So I bought a nice 24" LED HDTV/monitor combo, which has both DVI and HDMI connectors, and a headphones port supporting excellent Dolby surround sound.

Those changes cost me about $400, but they were worth it. The HDTV/monitor performs with my PC absolutely as well as any monitor-only unit I have ever had. And together with the BD-player, I get the best picture I have ever had, along with perfect stability. I have not had the slightest bit of trouble watching new releases like Source Code, Captain America, and Green Lantern.

At least for me, BD-ROM drives and Blu-ray software playing are history.

I have had issues for years trying to play blu-ray discs. This is with the most popular software intended to play these discs, Power DVD 11. I had so much trouble with stuttering sound and dropped frames that I gave up and just bought a blu-ray player and plugged it into my screen. No more problems. All blu-rays play perfectly. Maybe in ten years Microsoft will get around to doing this.

A codec is usually for a video file format. Blu-ray is more than a file format, it is a whole disc format, which also includes the interactive menus, extras, etc., so you need a full media player.

Actually, Window 7 Media Player already includes a partial codec for the Blu-ray movies: Just open the biggest .m2ts file in the BDM\STREAM folder. It may play mute or with a foreign audio track, but at least the video should be fine.

I just installed Windows 7 premium home,full retail 64 bit version. I was surprised to find media player does not support BluRay playback. I read the previous post in this forum and see, as far back as May, that Microsoft was aware of the codec issues with BluRay playback on Win. 7

What is Microsoft doing to solve this glaring issue. BluRay has been around for a long time and I'm sure thousands of Windows 7 customers are going to be in the same boat as me. There are NO codec available through a Google search ( 64 bit) and I would be very reluctant to use one off the internet anyway (Virus issues)