Blu Ray Media Player?

[george1979]

OK I just recently reinstalled the software suite I got with the Samsung BD player I bought from Scan about 18 months ago but the sodding thing refuses to play newer DVDs. PowerDVD 9 is no longer being updated by Cyberlink

I'm not even going to get into how much of a rip off this is but I will be contacting Scan and Samsung as I have been sold a drive which has been rendered useless unless I pay thru the nose. To buy their software now will cost me more than the bloody drive cost in the 1st place! It would actually be cheaper to buy a separate Blu Ray player!

I was wondering if anyone here knows of any other decent media players that will play Blu Ray but at a reasonable cost? PowerDVD is £60-70, Nero £70 and WinDVD £60. Utterly ridiculous.

If I do buy a separate Blu Ray player such as this:

http://www.richersounds.com/product/...-bdps185-discs

I assume these players have regular firmware updates so this would not be a problem?

[kalniel]

Depends on the manufacturer and model, but in general yes stand alone blu-ray players are supported and receive firmware updates.

[Macadee]

Try VLC http://www.videolan.org/

I used to use PowerDVD9 on my HTPC, but bought a PS3 and now use it instead.

[george1979]

VLC doesn't play back Blu Ray. There is supposedly a way to get the latest version to do this. Tried it last night and it didn't work unfortunately.

[george1979]

Just got an email back from Scan and they are going to send me some new software so problem solved for the time being. To be honest I really wasn't expecting that. Don't know why as Scan have always been great and as per usual I can't fault them. They really are the best in the business