Microsoft Windows 7 Will Not Support Native Blu-Ray Disc Playback.

[admin]

Windows 7 Users Will Still Have to Rely on Third-Party Software to Playback BD Movies

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20090305144654_Microsoft_Windows_7_Will_Not_Support_Native_Blu_Ray_Disc_Playback.html

[dr_ml422]

Billy boy is by no means stupid. When you're top dog you always try to stay on top. Why pay Sony when everyone else pays M$? M$ also looking ahead to see where Blu-ray ends up. Business never personal.

[doctorhardware]

IMHO is it kinda of short sighted, but I guess it is better to have some one do your work for you.

[atifsh]

they added native mov though, bye bye quicktime.

[dr_ml422]

they added native mov though, bye bye quicktime.

Thnk God. Anything quicktime on a PC was just headache imho. I just stick to MPC n FFdshown even that lil pita because of constant updates to ffdshow.

[admin]

Blu-ray licensing adds about $10-$20 on top of the cost (Dolby, DTS, AACS, BD-J ...), so that's probably why Microsoft won't include native Blu-ray playback to Windows 7.

[dr_ml422]

Always the $$$. Multiply that by hundreds of million pc's. ouch. Lol...

[drfsupercenter]

I don't really see what the big deal is... Windows XP doesn't even have native DVD playback, does it?

Although, last I checked that's easily fixed by installing a free trial of WinDVD or PowerDVD, and anyone can use Windows Media Player, or Media Player Classic, etc. to play them.

Or are you saying it won't be able to READ the discs without buying extra software?

[atifsh]

yes its like that... u need power dvd ultra for example to play BD movies. but u can write ur own stuff to BD disk no other software required for that..

[drfsupercenter]

Well, don't the free trials install the decoding software for you? And if I'm not mistaken, they are still active even when the trial installs.

Thank God for third party software! I don't really see what the big deal is, then...

[atifsh]

theres no big deal, but it was said before and still somwhat true, win 7 will be having most of the codecs and stuff so u dont want to install anything, like divx/xvid, H264 still in the system including mpeg2 for dvd.