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)

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Music, photos, and video

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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.

Amrita M

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-04-11T15:16:06+00:00

    Did you not even bother to read any of these posts or are you just a troll?

    So you bought a new computer and you don't know if it plays bluray, you just think your out of luck. Have you tried or are you "just reading"?

    If you really did (and I doubt it) bought a new HP computer *with* a bluray drive, then it will play bluray and if it doesn't, **** to HP. They should have included a player, if they sold you a drive with the system.

    BTW, why does Apple get a pass for not supporting bluray yet, they had had as much time as MS has, heck, they don't even support Flash, why do you think they ever will support bluray? Oh yead, I forgot: MS bad, Apple good.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-04-11T15:07:22+00:00

    That is perhaps the dumbest analogy I've heard in a while.

    Did your radio in the Chevy truck receive HD or Sat. If not, why not? Why doesn't Chevy include HD on all their radios, it's a technology that's out there? What is wrong with those cheapskates????

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-04-08T18:43:28+00:00

    Yeah, perhaps MS should scrap its Media Player and leave it up to better companies to supply those. I bought Cyberlink's player and it seems to be a lot easier to use than MS MP and it isn't sticky about disk formats.

    Kinda makes you wonder with astounding myopathy like this how MS got so big. But then, it didn't. It could see where it planted its feet and where to step next. Now it's too big and can't see its feet because the belly is in the way and it has astigmatisms.

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-04-06T02:46:51+00:00

    Awesome... So I spent extra to buy an HP Pavilion that essentially went to waste JUST so we'd have an "extra blu ray player" in the house for the family to not fight over the PS3, and from what I'm reading, we're basically $hit out of luck with this huh? Thanks Microsoft, I wish I had gone with my brain and bought a Mac, but, unfortunately, they don't offer blu ray playing computers either, but they probably will in the future!

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