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

The people on this forum cannot be serious.

You total morons can't understand the concept even after it has be explained thoroughly.

Yes it has a Blu Ray drive. So burn files to a Blu Ray disk and surprise, surprise...   ...you can view them.

But Blu Ray was an expensive technology to develop. And while Sony, Apple, Dell, HP and about 15

other companies were involved in the development of Blu Ray via The BDA (BluRay Disc Association), Microsoft was (Intentionally) excluded.

It's not a case of them not being able to include the codec and it's not a case of them wanting to sell you additional software. It's a case of IF THEY INCLUDE IT, THEY WILL BE SUED FOR DAMAGES, ALL KINDS OF THEFT AND COPYRIGHT.

They don't own or have the right to distribute the Blu Ray codecs.

Asking Microsoft why you cant play Blu Ray movies on Windows & is exactly the same as asking why they haven't included software that lets you play PS3 games?

It's got the hardware capabilities right? So why not?

I can even open up a PS3 game and copy files, open them up, etc. And Microsoft are probably capable of creating an emulator to play PS3 games in windows. But do you not understand the legal consequences of this sort of thing?

The hardware and the software included with a Windows PC does what it is supposed to do.

It reads and it writes to Blu Ray disks. I can open up a Blu Ray disk, copy files, burn to it, mount it with Alcohol 120%, play .wmv files from it with no problems.

I'm open to any questions or comments on anything I've mentioned but don't bother repeating the last 30pages of "It should be included"

Buyer Beware.

Based on this tread I will not be upgrading to Windows 8 or future versions of the O/S. I will be taking the advice of friends and trying UNIX instead.

Enough with the random policies of a company grown too big for itself.

Feh.

And Microsoft is wondering why their products are going down. I try to install the new windows 8 product in my pc and it did not work at all. After running their software to check if my pc was compatible, I was told that it was safe to install the new operating system. "Ns", my pc powered down and never power back up again. Fortunately I was able to restored windows 7 back into the pc and I did not loose any of my files. I called tech support and to my surprise, I was told that the reason why the installation did not work, was because the windows 8 operating system was a 32 bit system and my pc was a 64 bit system. If I let Microsoft check my PC with their compatibility software, than how in **** the wrong version was down loaded into my pc? In all, what else is going down in the Microsoft products line? So far, no Blu-ray compatibility, wrong diagnostic software, bad internet explorer, and lock of responsibility toward the customer.

My question will be, Is this the future that Microsoft wants for its product?

Thank you,

Juan Acosta

You are 100% right. To think that Microsoft will act like a little store on the middle of the block  is ridiculous.