ToyfareMark
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Post by ToyfareMark on Oct 19, 2016 20:05:43 GMT -5
I'm sorry for being quite behind on this, but I recently discovered that Windows 10 has no offical Blu Ray support. Now for several years I've had a laptop with a Blu drive that has normally been the main way I watched Blu's. So I figured I'd ask you guys. Is there is credible software to watch Blu Ray on Windows 10? Or even any tricks I could try on Windows? There has to be some way.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Oct 19, 2016 22:01:42 GMT -5
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ToyfareMark
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Post by ToyfareMark on Oct 20, 2016 3:43:04 GMT -5
Thanks, I'll give it a shot. |
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 20, 2016 4:17:11 GMT -5
VLC is my player of choice. Pretty sure it supports Blu Ray.
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trollrogue
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Post by trollrogue on Oct 20, 2016 9:22:00 GMT -5
With MPC you'll have to download the Combined Community Codec Pak (last updated 2015) with VLC Player everything you need is already included with VLC, and VLC has higher compatibility with most blu rays (and video files in general) and uses less RAM to play videos. I'd recommend VLC hands down.
Funny how Microsoft continues to be butthurt that Sony put one over on them with the whole PS3 launch having Bluray included, versus their FAILED HD-DVD format, lol
Or... does Sony have some kind of blacklist in their proprietary Bluray format where no Microsoft software is allowed to support BD?
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Post by Cyno on Oct 20, 2016 10:40:02 GMT -5
The Xbox One has a Blu-Ray drive and playback so it's definitely not Microsoft being pissy about HD-DVD's failure. Sony also doesn't actually own the Blu-Ray format. They helped develop it, but the format is owned by a large consortium of companies that both Sony and Microsoft are a part of. Also as far as I'm aware, MS had nothing to do with the development of the HD-DVD. That was Toshiba.
The extent of that format war as far as MS is concerned is that they backed the wrong horse with the Xbox 360's HD movie player and adapted pretty quickly to support the industry standard from then on. I'm pretty sure that Windows 7 had native Blu-Ray support.
It is strange that Windows 10 doesn't have any official blu-ray player out-of-the-box (MS wants you to pay $15 for a blu-ray player, which is silly). Fortunately, third party codecs and other free video players like VLC and MPC exist.
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