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    Blu-Ray playback on DV5 with Win7

    Discussion in 'HP' started by richo64, Nov 26, 2009.

  1. richo64

    richo64 Notebook Guru

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    I have a DV5 1010TX, with a Bluray /DVD combo BC5500S. I tried Win 7 to find that the Blu-Ray playback using Media Smart DVD from the HP website is unstable & essentially unusable. With Vista the playback using QuickPlay is faultless. Has anyone else had this problem... & ... solutions?
     
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    richo64 Notebook Guru

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    I'll ask the question another way. Has anyone tried Quickplay 3.7 with Win7? Or has anyone found any other software for Blu-ray playback. I reverted to Vista, so I can't try these out, & I'm not keen to put Win 7 on again till I know that I can use the Blu-ray player.
    Thanks.
     
    richo64, Nov 27, 2009
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    fantomasz Notebook Deity

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    media player?


    I have bluray drive but I not try bluray yet
     
    fantomasz, Nov 27, 2009
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    sublime313 Notebook Evangelist

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    i never found a (legitimately) free program for blu-ray playback either. so i went another route. using CyberLink PowerDVD 9.0 Ultra now.
     
    sublime313, Nov 28, 2009
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    i use HP quickplay v3.7 and it works fine when the bloody POS drive will actually read the disk. not massively responsive, but once ive clicked play i dont touch it again until its finished.
     
    roosta, Nov 29, 2009
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    Found a solution. Either using QuickPlay, set in compatibility mode for Vista SP2, or HP MediaSmart DVD with updated video drivers. HP MediaSmart DVD does not work with the video drivers supplied by HP (go figure). I'm using the drivers supplied from Windows Update. The QP button can be made to open HP MediaSmart DVD by editing the registry.
     
    richo64, Dec 4, 2009
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