PowerDVD Ready For HD DVD And Blu-Ray
CyberLink announced today that CyberLink PowerDVD has passed the testing requirements for the playing of HD DVDs. PowerDVD has also been verified for the playback of the Blu-ray Disc formats BD-ROM and BD-R/RE. Meanwhile, CyberLink PowerProducer has passed testing for the recording of video content onto BD-RE discs.
The completed HD DVD testing process, conducted by a Class A Verification Laboratory of the DVD Forum, now permits PowerDVD HD DVD to carry the HD DVD logo.
The Blu-ray tests, conducted by the
"The confirmation of format verification for HD DVDs, ensures that PowerDVD HD DVD remains the premiere software for high- definition interactive HD DVD movie playback on the PC," said Alice H. Chang. "What's more, passing the testing requirements for the Blu- ray Disc logo is yet another major milestone for PowerDVD BD and PowerProducer."
While PowerDVD Ultra can in deed play Blu-ray movies, as long as Sony and other distributors continue to release movies that use newer versions of copy protection and things, then they had better well send that news out to companies such as Cyberlink so that the newer versions can be incorporated into patches for their software. As it stands currently, the latest version of PowerDVD BD or Ultra can not play disc 1 of the Spider-man 3 Blu-ray (which is now available in Australia) for example...
Posted by: David | October 09, 2007 at 11:33 PM
I can confirm that PowerDVD Ultra in Vista on my quad powered HTPC with HDCP all the way through cannot play back Spiderman III, which I hired from Movieguys. Titles such as Behind Enemy Lines, The Rock, Black Hawk Down are all good. Pretty bloody disappointing; I might just buy myself a HD DVD rom after this. Also had to get AnyDVD HD because behind enemy lines required a zone change; I had just changed it to play back the The Rock title that I bought, so I'm getting fed up with this.
Posted by: Jorgen Smith | October 21, 2007 at 09:05 AM
Has anyone played Spiderman 3 Blu-ray on the LG GGW-H10N BD/HD combo drive. I've spent two days trying to get it to play.
Posted by: Johnny Davis | November 27, 2007 at 11:09 PM
I could get it to play using a vga cable. When I went to HDMI it would not play. Sounds like Sony changed the security settings for the disks again. I grow so tired of that, perhaps they should just keep their disks.
Posted by: Dale | January 14, 2008 at 10:18 PM
Ialso have been unable to get PowerDVD BD+HD Ultra 7.3 fully patched... to play any sony titles on my LG GGC-H20L drive, titles from Warner Brothers and Fox play without fault... come on Sony what are you playing at.. oh just realised they want us to buy PS3's!!!!
Posted by: Phil | June 08, 2008 at 06:32 PM
Hi; I have in my Gateway FX530XV with Vista Ultimate SP1, a Gateway FPD2485W monitor, an Nvidia 8600 GTS (SLI), a Toshiba SD-H802A and a Sony BWU-200S. I have tried Cyberlink PowerDVD 7 Ultra and PowerDVD 8 Ultra and all I can get from either is a black monitor, and this is after exchanging bi-weekly emails with the tech staff for over 6 months. Very recently I demanded my money back. At this time I'm trying Corel WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-Ray and I get video but no audio on either format of HD movies. Conventional DVDs play fine in either drive. Does anyone have any ideas of other software makers to try?
Posted by: Charles J Etheridge | July 11, 2008 at 01:31 AM
Power DVD works very fast and error free since 3 month.
Posted by: Blu-ray Forum | October 01, 2008 at 04:39 AM
well i have PowerDVD 8 and when i insert the blu ray movie into my cdrom computer it doesnt do nothing it doesnt even say play or anything and i try to click play on PowerDVD 8 but it says that there is no disc please email me back i need help :-(
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Posted by: Monica | October 27, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Just bought the Gateway FX4200 with HD Blue Ray DVD, when I try to play a blue ray DVD, I got black screen... talked with tech support from gateway a couple times cannot get this resovled...
wondering if this is the hard ware issue or just movie issue..
Posted by: Michaelw | November 11, 2008 at 12:24 AM
just got pioneer bdc-202, running power dvd bd edition that came with it, sony disks run fine, warner bros do not, audio okay, video jumps every second then hangs for 10.
intel 1.8g dual core, xp pro sp2 1g ram, 8600, dvi to 22" lcd
Posted by: Steve | December 19, 2008 at 04:40 AM