What Software is needed to play Blu-Ray on Desktop PC?
1080638
I honestly couldn't say, I could NEVER get this to work. My suggestion is to save your money and pay for a better unit. This one has no instructions. I actually got went through two of these thinking maybe the first one was just bad, but the second one did the exact same thing. I would not recommend wasting your money on this.
1080639
It comes with the drivers on a disk but you need a hdmi input to your monitor.
1080640
You need BluRay player software. If you do not have it, this unit will play CDs and DVDs on the players that work for those, but you need BluRay software to play BluRays.Jim
1080641
The Software and Drivers come with the player. But your PC monitor needs to be hooked to you PC with a HDMI cable for it to work
749752
It is, however you need to purchase the software if you plan on running as a Blu Ray player. This is hardware only. I ended up returning it because it would not consistently play my Blu Rays. I would not recommend.
682546
I had to download software as the software that was included with the one I received did not work with windows 8.1 you'll need software to play blu rays and I just googled that.
1164070
Yes it does with the proper player software and a HDCP compatible monitor. I played a Blu-Ray movie using Nero 12 Kwik Media software on a Win7 Pro system. I the provided software on a Win8 Pro system and it works fine.
2126752
There no disc drive at all, so no it does not play blu-ray. I have an external DVD-RW drive that I use if I need to burn a disc.
1189574
I don't think there is a blu-ray player you can plug a computer into to stream movies. Since you can plug your computer into a TV set that has a VGA input, you can stream from your computer to the TV. Alternatively you can encode your movies into AVI and put those files on an external USB disk drive then plug the drive into the blue ray player and stream from that.
1876030
Also, there are free disk player programs out there, such as VLC Media Player (which can play just about anything you are likely to come across) and ExMplayer which even plays 3D Blu-Rays either in 3D or converted to 2D on the fly if necessary! For burning software, there is Img-Burn, an excellent FREE disk burning program. A search on the internet will help you find them. Good luck! F.H.
844885
It will not function as a stand alone blu-ray movie disc player. It has to be hooked up to a machine (aka your computer) that has blu-ray playback software.
682547
plug it in and get blu ray software, either the free versions or the paid versions.
643705
Same here. Works fine with Blu Ray, but says Check Disc when I put in a DVD.
38870
I don't know what programs you have tried, but use the LG software first to make the BD readable and playable, then you need to use a blue ray playing program such as Roxio or Power DVD etc.
1715236
There is free software to download for blu-ray players. Just google and look for the compatible software for your LG. My LG works great and that is what I did.
950288
Works great for me. I'm using Macgo blu ray software. Not sure if there are other programs that will give you blu ray functionality. I googled blu ray on Mac, and that's the first program I saw.
1312356
No. Not unless you have an hdmi cable connection between your PC and your tv with the player &gt;&gt; usb &gt;&gt; PC &gt;&gt; hdmi &gt;&gt; tv, but at that point, it's your laptop that's playing the DVD's/Blu-Ray. You'll also need a codex playing software for your PC for Blu-Ray and the drivers for the player for your PC.
861092
A simple laser pointer taped to the stylus will allow play of CD's / DVD's. However, do not attempt with Blu ray as this will not work.
787487
you must have software to play blu-ray discs, i recommend cyberlink PowerDVD or you can download the VLC player its free, you must dowload the libbluray libraries to get vlc play Bluray.
1182214
you need software to play blu rays , play back software is about $100.The answer is yes but you'll have to buy additional software .This is the case no matter what player you buy