will this software play blu-ray movies?
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According to Dell, Yes. Dell Cyberlink PowerDVD versions 8.x & 9.x will play BluRay source: http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kcs/document?docid=475725&DoNotRedirect=y A word of warning. Cyberlink support for the retail 9.x series ended June 2011. Dell support for the OEM version is hard to find. In the Dell support forums there is a post by TinyButDeadly with a download link for an update (March 2013) -- fourth post on the linked page. http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/software-os/f/3524/t/19474567.aspx?PageIndex=2
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Yes, you will need additional software to play the Blu-Ray format. Google Mac Blu-Ray player and you will find both paid and free software for doing so.
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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.
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As everyone has stated, it works fine right out of the box with Win8/ 8.1 ... You will need software to play commercial Blu-ray titles however.
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It will only play blu-rays with a software program. The one I use is powerDVD 13
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As long you have the correct codecs for your OS, it should play. It has nothing to do with the dvd or blu ray drive, rather the player (software apps) playing the VLC files.
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I am not the seller, but if it will read a Blu-ray, it will certainly read/play regular DVDs. Plus the specs say it will: look at READ DVD-ROM(which means that it will read DVDs that are already burned with information).
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It does not come with software to play movies. Software to play blu-ray movies is not free, so you'll have to buy that elsewhere. There are several products on the market. Reading a data disc does not require software and that'll work through Windows/Linux/whatever without any additional software. So if you're using this for data discs then you'll be fine. (To be fair, VLC can play Blu-ray movies and is free, but it requires installing a 3rd party addon and if you have to ask the question then you probably won't be successful doing it. So just expect that you'll need to buy software to play movies.)
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I have played with a third party software, Blu ray movies. So it should also play DVD movies too.
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All Blu-Ray players should play DVDs just fine but this particular one will play my DVDs just fine but not Blu-Ray discs.
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Joe the Anime Fan,Yes, it can play Blu-ray movies. It comes with Blu-ray compatible PowerDVD 10 software for playback.
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According to the installation guide, it will play Blu Ray but it says nothing about writing to Blu Ray. It says to use HDCP compatible display and VGA card to get HD digital output. I would contact Asus direct or try http://www.cyberlink.com
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Yes, the Multimedia suite that is included is PC software allowing you to play Blu-ray movies on PC. You have to make sure your PC's video card and monitor are HDCP compliant for securely playing back Blu-ray movies. Modern PC's and Laptops are all compliant. Thank you, DIGISTOR
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It will play pretty much any type of media disc, including 3D Blu-ray. If you want to write data to a disc, here are the supported formats: Blu-ray: BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-R LTH, BD-RE, BD-RE DL DVD: DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD-RW CD: CD-R, CD-RW
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hello! yes it will. I had played some movies. I really dont know if which type of disk the movies were recorded in , but I'm almost sure that you aren't going to have problems with that.
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Software can be downloaded online or you can request a disc from us - I would need to know what you operating system you have and if you are needing a media player to play blu ray/dvd or the burning software to burn cd/dvd/blu ray - Thank you
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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