Blu-ray Woes: Youth without Youth

[Sirandar]

Blu-ray definately isn't there yet, at least for the PC. It seems like russian roulette.

Bought a Pioneer Blu-ray player 2 months ago when it dipped below 200$CDN

PowerDVD Utra (full version) resolutely refused to install on my system. After alot of pain I got it working with WinDVD+BR but every single title I tried and my standard DVDs took forever to load. The lag on my standard DVDs was unacceptable. Pioneer blamed the software devs and the software dev blamed Pioneer. I just took my drive back to Futureshop.

When the LG H20L dipped below 200$ I decided to give it a try buying from Futureshop so I could take it back. No lag on my standard DVDs and an acceptable start lag on Blu-Ray. At the same time I bought the Planet Earth series but before I cracked it open I rented "Youth Without Youth" to test the drive and software.

Again PowerDVD (OEM this time) refused to install. The option to start a movie was missing and the LG key didn't work for PowerDVD. I will never buy anything from Cyberlink again.

Installed WinDVD+BR and it went OK but "Youth without Youth" just crashed in as the menu was loading. Did all the standard stuff to try to get it to work but no success. At this point I was agonizing about cracking my Planet Earth series to see if they worked. They all played flawlessly so my system is fully capable of playing BD.

Took my "Youth without Youth" back to to Rogers Video and complained and they said they would give me a free BR DVD rental (but they lied). Rented the same movie from another Rogers, paid again as they had no record of my free rental and it crashed in the same manner. I will be getting cash back for both or I will cancel.

Tried disabling everything, even DEP and still won't work.


Blu-ray is still a nightmare. I am sure almost all older BD will play on my system as "Planet Earth" plays perfectly and other titles worked when I had the Pioneer player.

Blu-ray is still like Russian roulette and I wouldn't consider buying a BD DVD at this time because it may not play. Then what do you do, beg to return it? I bought Planet Earth because for me it was a must have and for it alone it was worth the trouble but I will not be buying any more for quite a while until the studios and software devs get their act together.

There was no start lag on my standard DVDs and an acceptable start lag on Blu-Ray for the LG drive so I will keep it.