PowerDVD versions for playing BlueRay?

[W_Eagle]

Which PowerDVD versions play BlueRay disks and files?

[minidv2dvd]

HD file playing ended with pdvd 7.3

[W_Eagle]

Thanks.
I asked about Blueray, not HD DVD or HD files.

[minidv2dvd]

i used HD as in general, all BR and HD file playing ended with 7.3

[jagabo]

i used HD as in general, all BR and HD file playing ended with 7.3

They why does their web site currently start out with the following?

The Best Blu-ray/DVD Player Software Today... The Best Blu-ray/DVD Player Software Today

World-renowned PowerDVD 9 delivers outstanding Blu-ray and DVD movie playback quality on your PC.

* NEW Unparalleled HD movie experience: The best video quality today with incomparable support for all HD video formats like AVCHD, AVCREC, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), MPEG-2 HD and WMV-HD

http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdvd/overview_en_US.html

[minidv2dvd]

the playing of HD-DVD and blu-ray files copied to the hard drive ended with 7.3

the * denotes you can play high def files from camcorders or that you have encoded yourself.

[Ai Haibara]

W_Eagle, do you want to play actual Blu-Ray discs, or Blu-Ray content copied to a hard drive?

[W_Eagle]

W_Eagle, do you want to play actual Blu-Ray discs, or Blu-Ray content copied to a hard drive?

Both.

[jagabo]

the * denotes you can play high def files from camcorders or that you have encoded yourself.

Actually, in the web page it's not a * it's a bullet item along with several others which I didn't bother to quote.

[jman98]

First of all, HD can mean
High Definition
Hard Disk

In this case, it's a little of both, but I think the original poster is missing that.

PowerDVD stopped playing ripped BluRay and HD DVD discs from hard drives after version 7.3. The current version of PowerDVD will still, supposedly, play BluRay discs, but given how each version of PowerDVD that is released has less functionality than the one before it, I am not kidding when I say that it wouldn't surprise me at all if PowerDVD stopped supporting BluRay playback, even from pressed discs.

[ntscuser]

It will only work with a HDMI-enabled graphics card even if the recording is totally encryption-free.

[CubDukat]

It will only work with a HDMI-enabled graphics card even if the recording is totally encryption-free.

Actually, it works quite nicely with AnyDVD HD (?). I think you mean that the video card has to be HDCP-enabled.

Then again, if you have an HDMI jack, that's more or less a given, since you can't have that without HDCP.

Hopefully they'll do some real improvements to the program soon. From what I understand, it's the one thing that's holding Auzentech's X-Fi HomeTheater HD sound card up.

[ntscuser]

It will only work with a HDMI-enabled graphics card even if the recording is totally encryption-free.

Actually, it works quite nicely with AnyDVD HD (?). I think you mean that the video card has to be HDCP-enabled.

If you like. I'm using AnyDVD already but don't have a dedicated graphics card let alone a HDMI jack! My current PC isn't worth the expense of adding one even if the power supply was up to it which I doubt.