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

Anonymous
2009-10-25T16:16:04+00:00

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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Anonymous
2009-10-28T13:18:41+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-11-16T22:58:39+00:00

    If I had to put a screw into a piece of wood, I wouldn't go buy a hammer...Windows 7 is what it is, an "operating system". Sure they have thrown on a lot of cool add ons that they developed and more than likely "patented" in house. Last time I checked people used PC over MAC was so that they get to CHOOSE what types of software application they want, as opposed to the canned yet streamlined stuff that is available for your mac. Sure it would have been real nice if they MS could have included BD playback capability, but where do you draw the line on what they are reasonably entitled to include?

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-11-17T03:20:24+00:00

    The line is easy to draw for a product called "Ultimate", it should of course include Blu-ray technology that is already several years old.

    This way it stays optional for mainstream users, and the premium price can cover the Blu-ray license until this aberration is removed.

    Until Blu-ray is part of Windows and Mac OS, the market will develop only slowly, users will be limited to bad players like PowerDVD 10, DVD and BD movies will not be integrated seamlessly into movie library features, etc.

    To return your question, why would you draw the line at DVD technology and not BD?

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-11-17T21:48:52+00:00

    This is terrible, yet another Windows 7 disappointment.  Every day it feels like I'm confronted with yet another reason I should have held onto my cash or gone somewhere else.  Office 2010 64 bit?  Oh well, forget syncing my Windows mobile 6.5 phone then

    • MS has no plans to upgrade WMDC to support it.  Expensive rig so I can do cool stuff - and even watch a blu-ray, nah, forget it.  MS isn't bothered to support us here either.  I suppose more fool me for not spending hours and hours googling for Win 7 tech woes before parting with my cash.  Stupidly I bought into the ethos of 'Windows 7 - just works!'  I'm disappointed folks.  Remember, a happy customer tells 5 others but an unhappy one tells 20.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-11-18T02:25:17+00:00

    Lol, we must all have missed something: Blu-ray is built in Windows 7, according to the latest Microsoft ad:

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20022698-71.html    *smiles sarcastically*

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