upgrade to windows 7

[Johnny Vinyl]

Originally Posted by lbloodojunkieg

I've upgraded to 7 the day it came out and it has been great, except for one HUGE problem. My laptop has a blu-ray drive, and I could play blu-ray movies just fine with Vista, but after I upgraded to 7, blu-rays no longer work. After some research, I found out that Windows 7 doesn't support blu-ray. What the ****!! You have to be kidding me. Vista supports it, but 7 doesn't. If I had known that, I probably wouldn't have upgraded. The only way to play blu-rays on Windows 7 is to BUY a special program which cost around 60 bucks.

Are you serious? That is just dumb! So much for adding a BD drive to my new Dell Inspiron, because I'm not paying $60 for a piece of software.

John

[SDon1969]

Originally Posted by John72953

Are you serious? That is just dumb! So much for adding a BD drive to my new Dell Inspiron, because I'm not paying $60 for a piece of software.

John

But didn't you need a DVD decoder just to play DVDs with Windows XP? That's how I remember it, DVD playback wasn't supported with XP, you needed the extra software. Also I heard that the blu-ray software was around $30 (I recently bought a new PC and was looking into this subject a bit). But I'm no expert, just my $0.02...

[Euribo]

Originally Posted by SDon1969

But didn't you need a DVD decoder just to play DVDs with Windows XP? That's how I remember it, DVD playback wasn't supported with XP, you needed the extra software. Also I heard that the blu-ray software was around $30 (I recently bought a new PC and was looking into this subject a bit). But I'm no expert, just my $0.02...

60 dollars is just a rough figure. Sometimes these companies have sales, but I haven't seen one as cheap as 30 dollars, although I didn't do that much research as I'm not interested in shelling out more cash for something that should have been included, especially considering the previous version of this product included it.

[Johnny Vinyl]

Originally Posted by SDon1969

But didn't you need a DVD decoder just to play DVDs with Windows XP? That's how I remember it, DVD playback wasn't supported with XP, you needed the extra software. Also I heard that the blu-ray software was around $30 (I recently bought a new PC and was looking into this subject a bit). But I'm no expert, just my $0.02...

I used to play DVD's on my old PC's quite often, especially late at night with headphones. I never bought any software though. I can't honestly remember now, but I probably used some freeware applications. I do know that I never had any issues playing back DVD's with XP or those OS's before.

John

[SDon1969]

Originally Posted by John72953

I used to play DVD's on my old PC's quite often, especially late at night with headphones. I never bought any software though. I can't honestly remember now, but I probably used some freeware applications. I do know that I never had any issues playing back DVD's with XP or those OS's before.

John

The software was usually included with the DVD drive, like Power DVD or Cyber DVD. XP didn't originally have the needed codecs, but I think they came out later on (MPEG2)...

[Johnny Vinyl]

Originally Posted by SDon1969

The software was usually included with the DVD drive, like Power DVD or Cyber DVD. XP didn't originally have the needed codecs, but I think they came out later on (MPEG2)...

I think that's what it was...like I said, I can't honestly remember as I don't watch DVD on my PC anymore.

John

[Euribo]

Originally Posted by John72953

Are you serious? That is just dumb! So much for adding a BD drive to my new Dell Inspiron, because I'm not paying $60 for a piece of software.

John

Yep, I was pretty angry when I found out. You might want to give this a read; http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...d-1ad7f37f42af