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

I wish sysconp1 would take a reality pill, Blu-ray may be a minority compared to the long-established DVD standard, but it still numbers into millions of users. 32 millions BD players are expected to be sold this year, while the number of DVD players, although bigger, is rapidly decreasing. 68% of Tron: Legacy sales were made on Blu-ray, so do most of the blockbusters since Avatar.

Besides, if you had read the thread, you would have seen that we don't ask everybody to pay for a codec they don't use, just a special edition ("Ultimate" for instance) and that we are ready to pay extra for a Microsoft solution rather than a clumsy third-party player that does not integrate with Windows Media Player.

And you didn't have to pay anything for the DVD codec, it's part of Windows for free since Vista. There is no reason to discriminate against Blu-ray if customers want it, even at a price.

I wish people would take a reality pill. Blu-Ray is still a minority peripheral, despite the folks on this thread may suffice with good ole DVD. Why should the majority of people buying Windows 7 pay for a codec that they do not or may never need. Why make the majority pay for something they don't need and possibly lose sales due to Windows being too expensive at the whim of the few? I for one put my hand in my pocket and paid for the DVD codec when I needed it and now the Blu-Ray codec the same. If you want a feature that the majority don't have or want then you must be prepared to put your hand in your pocket.

I am not anything to do with Microsoft but I do agree with them leaving out the codec and keeping the price down for the majority. Remember Microsoft is a business and not an opensource venture. You should consider that when you are buying your software. Now I am off to watch my Blu-Ray movie on my Windows 7 Laptop! Thanks Microsoft, Windows 7 does what it says on the tin :-)

Wow so Microsoft paid for the DVD Codec to play codec in windows 7 not in windows XP but they did not Pay for Blu-Ray in Winodws 7.

sounds like they wanted people to use HD-DVD not blu-ray , a little monopolistic practices it sounds like to me :-).

note even windows xp media center did not have the lic/codec to play DVD.

but now Windows 7 does.

So MS knows what needs to be done just that they did not do it in Windows 7. or they did not want to pay for it :-).

another not I love how Microsoft says that ubuntu / linux  can't play dvd and other codec, and then windows 7 comes out and it can't play blu-ray.

Love the MS spin machine.

That's all.

1. microsoft is two cheap to pay for bluray licensing but makes billons on their **** retentive licensing
2. a primary motive is that in windows 8 9 10 you will possibly be baited to buy new os like carrot in front of a frigging donkey concept to get BD native MCE support or like the long overdue QAM support possibly the 5 years overdue MCE PIP why havew G damn 2 3 4 tuners and not be able to display all on a large screen I can sure as heck do it from hauppauges win tv 7,2 by adding -multi to target line in shortcut on desktop each with its own teletext and independent volume control however the drawback is that hauppauge does event timing or live viewing via a web based titan.com tv guide, not integral like MCE

Microsoft simply drags their butt on the ground so they don't have to do any significant engineering in new os releases but its mainly that baiting with long overdue functionality in new os releases to drive sales.

It never ceases to amaze me how microsoft can stack **** higher faster than cpu processing capabilites increase, always trying to stack too much on camels back, this is a ploy to drive hardware sales which drives their software sales microsoft is simply assinine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!