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

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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)

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Hi Patrick,

As we know that Blu-Ray is a patented technology so it requires appropriate codecs to be purchased and hence we cannot include it in our Operating System.

To play a Blu-ray Disc, you need to use a non-Microsoft program that supports Blu-ray playback and a device capable of reading Blu-ray Discs.

Check the below link:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/MPEG-and-DVD-video-frequently-asked-questions

Hope this information is useful.

Amrita M

Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

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Anonymous

2010-03-28T17:22:30+00:00

outraged that microsoft and hp advertise that my computer will play blu-ray when additional programs are required for a significant cost.
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Anonymous

2010-03-21T04:28:42+00:00

It really shouldn't surprise anyone that has used a pc for even a little while that 7 doesn't come with a bluray codec.... I can't remember if Vista had a codec for DVD, but I don't think it did, I know that XP didn't. however, on the other hand. I haven't found a single PC you can buy that has a Bluray drive that doesn't have software to play bluray movies. I also personally doubt that bluray drives purchased in a consumer format (ie boxed, on display at a vendor for consumers, not at a OEM parts store) wont have software for playing bluray movies... that's how it was with DVDs, the only difference is all the software for dvds made it so you could play them in WMP, the ones for blurays dont seem to all do that (yet) so you didn't notice it at all for DVD's 'cuz you installed the software, or it came installed on the pc then you probably forgot about it and played the DVDs in WMP.

in other words, nothing changed other than some bluray software not instantly making it so that you can play blurays in WMP (i'm guessing that was because blurays use java), and more people buying their parts oem and possibly not recieveing software to play blurays (which i doubt, did you actually check the discs that came with the hardware? i bet it's there).

anyway, i'm still looking forward to something simple that makes my Blurays play in WMP because I don't like the software that came on my PC.

~Scott.
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