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

you forgot to cry at the end of the statement. The riality of the problem is that Microsoft does not want to admit that blu-ray is better than HD-dvd. If they realy wanted to make the customer's life more easy, they would have integrated blu-ray play back long time ago. But, it is all about who has the control of the market therefore the money.Greet.

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Actually, VLC doesn't support Blu Ray playback unless you want to start fooling with 3rd party libraries, and even then it's sporadic at best.

Everyone is moaning and groaning about this being a Microsoft, Windows 7, LG, or PowerDVD issue.  It's much deeper than that.  This is the MPAA at it's finest, and they require manufactures to constantly upgrade certificates on their hardware to keep playing newer Blu Ray formats.  The licensing is ridiculous and they are basically playing cat and mouse with the pirates.  To be honest, it's almost easier to just play pirated content today than it is the stuff you buy at the store.  Sad state of affairs I'm afraid.

I've had to upgrade firmware on my stand alone blu-ray player several times now.  I want to see grandma and grampa do that.  The only way to really solve the problem would be a total boycott of blu ray technology, but it won't happen because consumers would rather just come on forums like this and speak with a loud keyboard.  Another solution is to only buy blu ray combos that also include a digital copy.  That will allow you to at least play back the digital file, although sometimes I think the quality is less that that of the blu ray itself due to more compression. 

Anyways, I just built a $1200 computer that I included an LG Blu Ray with.  I found this forum actually looking for answers on blu ray playback in windows 7 because the included Cyberlink software so far has about a 40% success rate with my collection.  I just also bought Inception on blu ray, but can't watch it on my computer, and cyberlink is asking for another $45 to upgrade the sofware.  Whomever said it's all about the cash, you are absolutely right.  Like I said, my options right now are watch this in the living room on the stand alone (which I won't because my son will wake up), go find a pirated copy and take the chance of the MPAA/RIAA big brother machine finding me out and suing me to lifetime bankrupcy (although I have a collection of 3000 CD's, 500 DVD's, and about 40 Blu Rays all bought with my hard earned cash), or I can just decide I'm fed up with the whole industry and boycot it.  I'm really getting close to the later.

BTW, I'm not a Microsoft cronie, but I will call it where I see it, this isn't an issue with Windows 7, or the battle between HDDVD and BluRay, this is wholly an issue with the big movie houses putting their pockets over fair use of the consumer.  This will only get worse.

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... no OS available which provides native integrated Blu-Ray movie playback, including Windows, Apple's Snow Leopard, orUbuntu.

It's entirely possible that in the future Windows and other OS's will add support for it in future releases, I imagine a lot depends on how popular Blu-Ray becomes during the Windows 8 product planning and development cycle. I couldn't comment either way.

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Granted they supported SD-DVD, finally, I hope you're right... but if you don't know why comment?

Anyway, "Ubuntu"? you can just use the word "Linux" as this link/procedure can be applied to most distros. Ubuntu is just one distribution of Linux. Last I checked Ubuntu and/or LINUX was free. MS Windows / Mac isn't.

And times are changing. (I know your post is dated). Some quick google examples:

Linux only(?): http://lxbdplayer.sourceforge.net/english.html (haven't used-only non-prot disks?)

Windows/Mac/Linux: MakeMKV. (Works well for me to stream stuff to my HTPC)