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
    2011-02-04T19:28:06+00:00

    I've been using total media theatre 3 with Windows 7 home premium x64 for ages now and for the moment it works fine over vga without any extra decryption software. They're supposidly going to start disabling 1080p HD over analouge in the future but atm it works for me.

    I can't wait for Blu-ray to die mostly because of HDCP. I don't mind the AACS tbh but I think blacklisting older hardware for basically no gain is ridiculous. Who is going to record a digital signal when you can always decrypt films in faster than real time on the PC, no matter what encryption they come up with.

    tl;dr

    1. Get total media theatre. It's the best way to play Blu-ray films on a PC.
    2. Microsoft don't owe you anything extra than the OS... How come Windows can't handle RAR files out of the box?? Same thing.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-01-11T06:38:12+00:00

    This thread must be too long for @lesiz to read, there's no Blu-ray on Mac either.

    Actually it's even worse on Macs, you need to run PowerDVD under Windows emulation or something similar AFAIK.

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-01-11T05:54:04+00:00

    Well, in this very long thread we're all kinda avoiding the REAL solution here, aren't we?

    The real solution is the ultimate PC upgrade:  Go Macintosh!

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