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

After spending the night dealing with this issue, I am extremely unhappy. I bought a SONY VAIO that has a blu ray sticker on it. It played blu ray discs until I upgraded from vista to windows 7. I've had nothing but problems with this computer since I purchased it, and I regret spending the money on this ridiculous computer. I'm writing this note on my mac , by the way.

Just a little reminder: MAC OS has no support for BLU RAY. In fact the company too has stated that they look forward to digital distribition just like MS did.

Running Windows 7, 64-bit, and bought a Samsung internal BD-ROM drive (SH-B083) for my desktop for ~$120 at Frys.  That drive included the Cyber Link BD Suite that has sufficed all of my BD needs.  It would be nice to have a codec for WMP or Media Center to integrate with other features, but to watch movies in full 1080p, my current drive works fine.  Hope that helps those of you who still haven't purchased a BD-ROM drive.  If you already have one, the manufacturer of your BD-rom drive might have a solution for you.  Highly recommend users to upgrade to W7, or at least Vista (I used to be a Vista hater myself, but came to peace with it after SP1).

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.