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| Registered: June 12, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,665 |
| | Posted: | | | | I just received some of the new James Bond Blu-ray discs and they won't play in my desktop BD-ROM drive. I have the same problem with the Romancing the Stone that came out a couple weeks back.
I have an LG GGC-H20L BD-ROM drive in a fairly new machine running Win XP Pro. The LG firmware is up-to-date.
The current software i'm using is the OEM version of PowerDVD 7 Ultra that came with the BD-ROM.
I'm looking for suggestions for other software options to try in place of PowerDVD 7. If i could get a trial version of PowerDVD 8 Ultra i'd try that but they don't have that available as trial-ware and i hesitate to thro money at it without knowing.
1) Has anyone else tried to play the Bond discs on their PC and been successful?
2) Does anyone have other playback software suggestions? | | | | Bad movie? You're soaking in it! |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | You're probably right to be skeptical about Power DVD Ultra. While I haven't tried it with a BD drive, it never worked right with an HD DVD drive for me, with constant screen glitches. I don't know why it'd be any better for BD. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 736 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting gardibolt: Quote:
You're probably right to be skeptical about Power DVD Ultra. While I haven't tried it with a BD drive, it never worked right with an HD DVD drive for me, with constant screen glitches. I don't know why it'd be any better for BD. 7.0 didn't work for me at all, but Power DVD 8 has worked like a charm using my Blu-ray drive. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 844 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have the same drive on my desktop (Vista Home Premium) I dumped the 7 ultra oem that came with it for Power DVD 8 for Blu Ray playback and Arc Soft Total Media for HD DVD/Blu Ray as well as seemless integration with the Windows Media Centre. Both play the James Bond discs just fine. On my laptop (Vista Home Premium) however I have been using the bundled Dell MediaDirect 3.5 there and it will not play the Bond. Or Nightmare Before Christmas. Or Speed Racer... |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
Ineptocracy, You got to love it.
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,188 |
| | Posted: | | | | Have you tried running them with AnyDVD HD. You can get a 30-day trial version I think... | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: June 12, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,665 |
| | Posted: | | | | I just downloaded AnyDVD and tried it. It knew i'd dropped a [Bond] disc in the drive but couldn't provide any information "No disc detected". No change in how PowerDVD 7 Ultra worked either.
I replaced it with The Incredible Hulk and got back information just fine, and PowerDVD worked.
Thanks though. | | | | Bad movie? You're soaking in it! |
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| Registered: June 12, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,665 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Srehtims: Quote:
There are system requirements.
Especially video cards. And my machine is full compliant. It's just these newest discs that are having issues. All my other BD and HD discs work just fine. Since it sounds like PowerDVD 8 works i may have to go that way. | | | | Bad movie? You're soaking in it! | | | | Last edited: by tweeter |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 88 |
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| Registered: June 12, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,665 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Takaikkuna: Quote:
Have you tried updating PowerDVD: http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/patches_112_en_CA.html. It should give better compability with some BDs.
As a bonus this update also gives you 6 channels when original that came with LG was only stereo. That fixed it! Sweet.  I didn't know they had updates specific to the OEM version. I looked but hadn't found that page. Now i'm good to go ... at least till the next time some @*&@#! gets cute with the software on a BD. Thanks again. | | | | Bad movie? You're soaking in it! |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Srehtims: Quote:
There are system requirements.
Especially video cards. More than met the requirements (with a very high end video card). Didn't work. ButOTOH I don't think I have the patch that's listed above; maybe that will help. I'll give it a shot this weekend. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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| Registered: March 24, 2007 | | Posts: 240 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting tweeter: Quote:
I just downloaded AnyDVD and tried it. It knew i'd dropped a [Bond] disc in the drive but couldn't provide any information "No disc detected". No change in how PowerDVD 7 Ultra worked either.
I replaced it with The Incredible Hulk and got back information just fine, and PowerDVD worked.
Thanks though. There was an update to AnyDVD to fix the "No Disc" with some of the Bond discs. I've had a few discs that had problems work with AnyDVD. | | | | Tom. |
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| Registered: March 24, 2007 | | Posts: 240 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Takaikkuna: Quote:
Have you tried updating PowerDVD: http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/patches_112_en_CA.html. It should give better compability with some BDs.
As a bonus this update also gives you 6 channels when original that came with LG was only stereo. I just found that update too. The built in update search in PowerDVD didn't show any update available just the over priced upgrade to version 8. The update seems to improve things in general and Bonus view works now too. | | | | Tom. |
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