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    M50Vm-b4 blu ray issues

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by jd5051, Oct 25, 2008.

  1. jd5051

    jd5051 Newbie

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    Does anyone know what I need to do to be able to play my blu-rays on my new laptop? I installed the WinDVD software that came with it and was only able to play 1/3 movies that I have. I even went and updated the WinDVD software and still only 1/3. I called Asus and they told me that when they contracted to get the BR drives from powerdvd they only contracted for 1 time initial support and nothing further but with blu-ray being new they encoding was constantly changing. Asus's advice was that I go buy software from powerdvd to be able to watch my movies. I think its BS that I just paid this much for the computer, now I have to go pay more money to be able to use what I paid for. So is that my only option to go pay $100 for the software?
     
    jd5051, Oct 25, 2008
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    rfs830 Notebook Evangelist

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    You will need the Powerdvd 8. That was the only way I would get a blu ray disk to play in my friends laptop.
     
    rfs830, Oct 25, 2008
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    Is that really the only option? And which version of powerdvd do I need, Ultra, or one of the cheaper ones?
     
    jd5051, Oct 26, 2008
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    rfs830 Notebook Evangelist

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    powerdvd 8 deluxe or ultra will be what you want to play blue ray movies. I wonder if you can upgrade the version that came with the laptop? The dell my friends has just came with the basic version which did not play any blu rays.
     
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    Mine didn't come with a lesser version that I could upgrade, it came with InterVideo WinDVD. And the coding on it is old, I even updated it for free, and still can only watch Ironman.
     
    jd5051, Oct 28, 2008
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