Can PC Blu Ray drives play any region Blu Ray dics?

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  1. Congay

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    Can PC Blu Ray drives play any region Blu Ray dics?

    I have a Aspire 6920 and my Amercian copy of Watchman is just bringing up the file directory when i insert the blu ray, it isnt given a option to "play movie" like normal
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  3. BRID

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    Have you got some bluray 'player' software for it ... something like pcdvd or windvd or something?
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    Pike is it the Directors Cut? If so then it should play anyway as it's region free.
  5. Congay

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    yeah directors cut

    iv played uk blu rays on it fine, its when i insert the disc it pops up with vistas "autoplay" box but only give the option to "open files / directorys" not play movie.
    when i right click and select "Play" from the drop down windows media player just pops up but dosnt start if i then click the play button it then starts the last .avi i played using it.

    strange.... i havent got a uk blu ray to hand to check if they will autoplay
  6. Congay

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    no i havent got any bluray software, what can get thats small and free

    someone mention 'anydvd bluray' from slysoft but its got to be bought
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    WinDVD BD for VAIO - will play older BDs.
    WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray - will play all I have thrown at it: No BD-Live.
    PowerDVD 8 Ultra - will play all I have thrown at it: BD-Live can be sluggish sometimes.
    ArcSoft TMT- will play anything I have thrown at it: BD-Live works fine.
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    What is BD-Live?
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    Just bluray discs that can go out on to the internet (through your player) to get extra content and shit.
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    ah right :up:
  11. Congay

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    just wasted a hour of my life downloading anydvd it said it needed to update to play watchmen and then wouldnt cos it was a trail version (i tried a crked ver too)

    baaaa
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    Got it working with PowerDVD but i still want to know why WMPlayer isnt dealing with it
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    shame arcsoft aint on my usual torrent site so im grabbing powerdvd.
    Ive lost the setup disk for my acer laptop but the bluray software was shite anyway

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