Playing Blu-ray with QuickTime Pro on Windows 7?

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Playing Blu-ray with QuickTime Pro on Windows 7?

I have Quicktime Pro Player v7.7 running on Windows 7. Can I use QT to play blu-ray disks? (My system does have a blu-ray capable drive.) ..Bill..

QuickTime Pro 7.7-OTHER, Windows 7

Posted on Sep 28, 2011 1:46 PM

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varjak paw

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Sep 28, 2011 1:48 PM in response to bill_edmonton

No, QuickTime Player will play neither Blu-Ray nor DVD disks. You'll need to purchase a Blu-Ray player application for your system. I believe WinDVD will handle Blu-Ray.

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Oct 3, 2011 9:45 PM in response to varjak paw

Thanks very much Dave! That makes sense of my Google results. (I did find one site that advertised QT as the best blu-ray player, but I now believe that to be bogus!)

WinDVD looked great, I liked that it was a Corel product, so I downloaded and installed it. However for some reason I couldn't sort out, when I tried to run the shortcut or even the .exe file in its installed directory, nothing happened. I even tried running it as admin--nothing. So I gave up on it.

I found a product called PowerDVD. It's about the same price and works really well.

Thanks again!

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varjak paw

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Oct 4, 2011 6:52 AM in response to bill_edmonton

Glad you found an application that works, and thanks for posting back. I'm always happy to know about alternatives.

Regards.

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