PowerDVD 10 ultra Blu-ray Palyback issue...Video is multicolour snow. HELP!

[BradOZ]

Hello,

Need some help, im going made trying to find the issue. I can not play back blu-ray movies with PowerDVD. they appear like a mulitcoloured snow? I have tried many Blu-ray disks and even ISO ripped to HDD. I have AnyDVD running in the back ground.

I can play the video files with splash lite? or when i explore the files and select a file to play it works ...but when i want to play the blu-ray as a whole through PowereDVD the video is multicoloured? Audio is fine!

What could be the issue?

Im using a Laptop Sony Vaio VGN-FW43G, windows 7, intel Duo 2, 3GIG RAM, ATI HD 3470. laptop screen supports 1080 playback.

Please help so I can watch my films

Thanks

[Baldrick]

Try disable anydvd completly and restart.
Be sure that powerdvd is updated(check for new version in it it possible).

Or switch to the much better TMT3.

[BradOZ]

I disabled AnyDVD and restarted the computer and installed the latest updates...but video is still multicolour snow?

[jman98]

PowerDVD is terrible. You'd be better served to use Total Media Theater as suggested.

Are you running Daemon Tools? PowerDVD doesn't like Daemon Tools.

[BradOZ]

no im not running daemon tools.

[DB83]

Stupid question time. You do have a Blu-ray player in that laptop ?. I just checked the specs and all I see is a standard dvd drive.

[BradOZ]

yes I do Have a blu-ray burner^^ It's external LG Model BE12LU30

[jman98]

PowerDVD is very restrictive. It prefers that you have HDMI connections between your monitor and your computer. If you do not have an HDMI connection I do not know what version 10 will do. Maybe what you see is normal for version 10. Or maybe it's normal for external BluRay drives which for some reason known only to Cyberlink (they make PowerDVD) they think that external BluRay drives are bad and they don't support them. Yes, I am really saying that it may be "normal" for PowerDVD not to work. I am serious.

I have said this before and I am not joking. Each new release of PowerDVD is more consumer unfriendly than the one before. I think PowerDVD is such a piece of crap that even though I got version 9 for free with a BluRay burner I bought, I paid $99 US for a copy of Arcsoft Total Media Theater instead.

[BradOZ]

PowerDVD 9 is supplied with the LG burner. I upgraded to version 10 in hope it would fix the issue of not working, Also It is a laptop so need for HDMI connections.

[fritzi93]

Many people say that each successive version of PowerDVD is less and less functional. I have PDVD8 and think it stinks compared to TME (same player essentially as in TMT3). But it does (did) work on my machines before I uninstalled it.

Dunno what else to suggest, as WinDVD is bad too. The only full-featured software Blu-Ray players that are any good are by ArcSoft, IMO.