First Blu-ray disc drive won't play Blu-ray movies

By Asher Moses on 11 August 2006

The first Blu-ray (BD) disc drive for desktop PCs is here, but be warned -- it won't play commercial BD movies.

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  • Michael commented on 16/12/2009 00:26

    yes but why would any of you buy this if you had a normal market computer, what use is it too you a normal market computer is gonna be bad quality anyway, i got one right away and it was perfect, i do however have and above market custom rig, but nether less bad idea to buy if u only spent 500 on ur computer ^^

  • Haru commented on 24/11/2009 11:25

    When ever i try to play my blu-ray disk it says windows 7 color thingy has been changed and then an error pops up telling me to go to www.cyberlink.com/BDUpdate and it will update my Blu-ray but really it did a system check and has not helped at all. saying im missing the system player or w/e...um...help!?

  • shamoo commented on 14/11/2009 08:31

    i love this so cool.

  • mick t commented on 05/09/2009 21:06

    i am trying to watch spiderman 3
    on my vaio vgn-ar51m laptop
    it played before but won't play now a window comes up sometimes
    and says windows vista is in basic mode colour problem help

  • jchap100321 commented on 09/08/2009 16:34

    Most Blu ray discs willnot play now that Microsoft rolled everything back to 3.1 Installer so your Blu ray is back to atapi setting and will not run Blu ray but will run the Digital DVDs.

  • Jack Rigsbee commented on 13/02/2009 00:47

    I bought a Sony Blueray Player about 6 months sfter it first came out. It will not play all blu ray movies. It seams that the commonality is it will not play movies with from columbia. What can I do so that I can play all bluray movies.Other than that I love it. Please Help me $600 is a lot to pay and not be able to watch all blueray movies. I am tired of returning disk PLEASE HELP!!!

  • nilesh commented on 07/02/2009 17:02

    blu ray disc is very use ful to store many data and tecnology is very useful to man.

  • Terrycove commented on 04/08/2008 23:57

    After weeks of work with Sony support their Blue Ray equipped computers are blocked from showing movies through the HDMI cable.When you plug it in the software terminates. They won't tell you direct, you have to find out the hard way.

  • Dilip Kalal commented on 25/06/2008 23:52

    Blue ray disk P-3 system supported

  • 6Cra6Zy6 commented on 24/12/2007 19:29

    what's the point in having HD quality movies??? I guess BD players connected to TVs are different but what about the pc. with recent codecs (eg: x264), it is possible to encode movies in HD standard (1280x760) and the quality is great and file size too (300mb=22 minutes). playback is good with recent computers (a pentium 4 2.8 ghz and 1 gb ram added with an nvidia 6800 is enough)...been recording videos from tv with such standards and i can't complain!! vista is such a scam...we should boycott those stuffs!!! The 'next gen.' is not for now...life is already sh*tty today and spending loads of money on crap like that seems useless...plus in 3-4 years people will stop using them, if we start using it :)

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