[quote name='crystalklear64']kinda old thread but i just ran into this problem myself. installed powerdvd that came with my drive (powerdvd8) only to discover that it doesn't play blu-rays without a patch and their servers are slow as
(15kb/s) and unstable. failed to download like 6 times before it worked. then i discovered it won't play new blu-rays because they stopped updating it so they could sell their next version which i believe is powerdvd11. BUT you don't get full support unless you buy the ultra edition. so off to google i went.
i ended up with full versions of powerdvd and total media theatre:
powerdvd is a piece of shit. even the ultra edition. it'll play your movies and thats about it. no screenshots or anything.
TMT is not much better and is very slow to buffer (must be a software thing since powerdvd does it twice as fast), but you can take screenshots and they don't
you out of updates so at least you'll be able to play the latest blu-rays.
The best option I found, however, was to just copy the movie and play in vlc.[/QUOTE]
Could you possibly explain how VLC works? I have no experience... Do you just open the files on disc and copy them into the player? Or does it take something else? I really want it to play in HD, so if it doesn't do that, I'm out. I'm really thinking of just getting PowerDVD, as I only want to watch the movies, and am not really into screenshots and the like. Why the Hell can't MS just pay up and include Blus in WMP?!?!