Hi

I have been using a Dell Studio XPS laptop with Windows 7 64 bit since August and it's been working great. Just recently I've noticed that the blu-ray drive is not able to play blu-ray discs anymore.

DVDs and CDs aren't a problem but when try using Power DVD for blu-ray nothing happens. When I try it on VLC I get an error message. When I try it on WMP nothing happens.

Any ideas?

As we know that Blu-Ray is a patented technology so it requires appropriate codecs to be purchased and hence we cannot include it in our Operating System.



To play a Blu-ray Disc, you need to use a non-Microsoft program that supports Blu-ray playback and a device capable of reading Blu-ray Discs.

Unfortunately you cannot play BluRay discs Windows Media Player on Windows 7 it is so by design, it is because of some codecs. You can try using some third party players and check if you can play the BluRay discs.


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