[Razor VinT]

Confirmed by Mr. Sinofsky himself, there will be no native BluRay support in Windows 7. However, BluRay Drive makers and OEMs will be able to extend Windows Media Center to support playback. What will be supported in Windows 7 though, is the burning of BRD discs.

Source: This email, via Windows7Center

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From: Theodore
Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:51 PM
To: Steven Sinofsky

Hi Steven,
Will Windows 7 include support for watching Bluray disks out of the box? Maybe you could make a post on the e7 blog about codec support in Windows 7.
Thanks!

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From: Steven Sinofsky
Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:57 PM
To: Theodore

Thanks. Blu-Ray support will be provided by PC makers or BRD drive makers. We have new extensibility in media center for those that provide BRD playback to support integrated playback. We do have support for burning BRD data discs.

[Villain]

This is because MS does not want to have to pay out for the royalties to include the bluray codec in 7. cant say that i blame them, because odds are the BluRay disc's will come with some software that it can install on our PC for playback anyway.

And just ive it some tome, there will be a kLite BluRay edition soon enough.

[Laguna]

This is so stupid. Why would they support burning and not playing?

Yeah Villain, maybe you're right. They don't want to pay for licenses.

KLite BluRay

[chemical reaction]

That mean that we are able to brun our own blue-ray movies, put we are not able to play them.

Interesting.

[Borix]

No real problem me thinks...

[Secured Tim]

Don't worry. VLC, GOM, KM, BS and many other players will support blu-ray video format.

[_akier_]

There are so many players out there that will support Blu-ray

[Eye Pie Rate]

Blu-Ray is the future of CD/DVD video/audio
This is not a good move from MS.

[Freka]

Bad move, but I think eventually they will have to add them because like Endrit said Blu Ray is the future.

[Edgar J.]

Eye Pie Rate, on Mar 5 2009, 04:13 PM, said:

Blu-Ray is the future of CD/DVD video/audio
This is not a good move from MS.

Agree.

Offtopic: Love how street fighters score xD.

[InlineSkate]

Eye Pie Rate, on Mar 5 2009, 03:13 PM, said:

Blu-Ray is the future of CD/DVD video/audio
This is not a good move from MS.

Well until they get under 100+ for a burner or a reader they're going no where mainstream.


And were just now getting into the HD monitor generation true HD is still very new technology I don't see bluray becoming mainstream until 2010+


Its only a codec and alot of companies already offer readers for it I believe.


They'll support it when they see it worth their while but until then its just not worth paying royalties for.

[Eye Pie Rate]

2010+ is the Real age of Windows 7 anyway.