Rant Blu-rays: why must I pay for software to play the films that I've paid for?

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  1. jezmck

    jezmck Minimodder

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    Simple as that, I don't think I should have to pay twice. I've already paid for the hardware.

    Blu-ray player software suggestions?
     
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  2. bigsharn

    bigsharn Officially demotivated

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    Does VLC work?
     
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  3. saspro

    saspro IT monkey

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    Arcsoft total media is probably the best available
     
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  4. goldstar0011

    goldstar0011 Multimodder

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    What hardware you referring to?

    If it's on a PC, I'm sure you paid less for the drive than a standalone player as the "software" is already on those hence the price
     
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  5. Fod

    Fod what is the cheesecake?

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    for the same reason that you had to pay for software to play DVDs when they first came out: nobody's written any free software for playing BDs yet. Suck it up and buy software or wait a year or so for it to get built into WMP/VLC
     
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  6. Phalanx

    Phalanx Needs more dragons and stuff.

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    VLC are coding it as we speak, but they have nothing properly working yet.
     
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  7. Flibblebot

    Flibblebot Smile with me

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    Slysoft are also working on a (free) player, they reckon they're about 50% there, but no timescales on when they'll be 100% there.
     
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  8. specofdust

    specofdust Banned

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    There's probably some free ripping software, you could always make an h.264 level rip and just watch it that way on your computer.
     
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  9. wyx087

    wyx087 Homeworld 3 is happening!!

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    does the drive not come with player software?

    all the DVD drives i've bought came with useless software.

    why not just buy a bluray player? £60 for a blu-ray drive vs £99 for a Sony blu-ray s370 player with remote and all playback capability of PS3 (USB video, internet content) i think i'll choose the s370 (in fact, i did :D )
     
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  10. <A88>

    <A88> Trust the Computer

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    Yeah it sucks massively. BD codecs cost money to license as far as I'm aware, and as such there's no free option around right now; Microsoft could eventually include them as part of Windows but until then I'm using Cyberlink PowerDVD. To be fair, the fact that I can afford a BD drive and the films themselves gives me no grounds to start whinging about having to use 3rd party software to enjoy a high-definition luxury good.
     
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