![]() If the whole thing is that flaky I'm giving up on it and sticking with DVD. They have a Blu-ray player but are not even on the internet! Not calling you a liar, a quick Google confirmed this is "a thing" but also suggested that some players can update themselves using data from the disc itself? Anyway, its a shame if its a true limitation.Īnyway, tonight I tried to test a demo version of Corel WinDVD and PowerDVD (downloaded only a few days ago) with a legitimate store-bought copy of The Force Awakens and it would not play on either. That will come as a shock to my parents, then. However, there are "other" options which are not permitted for discussion on this forum. ![]() There used to be Arcsoft Total Media Theater but it is now discontinued. I bet some players update automatically.Īs for software Blu-ray players, there aren't too many options other than WinDVD and PowerDVD. Most Blu-ray players have Internet connectivity (wifi or ethernet) so updating firmware is painless and can be done in the system menu. Therefore, Blu-ray players must be updated periodically with the latest keys. Publishers continually update the keys used to protect Blu-ray disks. Why are these constant updates required for software players? If I bought a stand alone player there would be no quick and easy way to update the firmware, nor would most end users expect to have to do so, so why is it apparently different for software players? Is the licensing model different? I ask because based on what I have read, it appears to be the aacs patches downloads which eventually breaks WinDVD. The only alternative seems to be PowerDVD, but the demo version I downloaded was bloatware, slow and very unstable on my machine and felt more like using shareware rather than a paid for professional suite.ĭarren Blake wrote:I must admit I am totally confused about the whole aacs patches thing. I must admit I am totally confused about the whole aacs patches thing. I have a post on the Corel user forum and even there no body is singing its praises. I had pretty much settled on Corel WinDVD Pro but I have read so many negative reviews about its long-term stability that I am really unsure whether to go for it. Oh, and that probably wasn't him.Not sure if resurrecting this thread is the way to go, but I am looking for a native Blu-ray solution for WMC rather than jumping wholesale to a different media player. I think the best thing he's written was the 2014 Dorkly Open Letter to Fans. Super annoying, but I found it funny and real. The ONLY thing I liked was the very end, where all the warriors were put out to pasture, and the politicians took over. It was pretty easy to guess what would happen in plot lines, by expecting either what would annoy me most, or what would be inline with his political ideologies. I was grateful for the last season, that it finally wrapped things up, but it just wasn't good. Mostly it just started draaaaaaging on every episode, with 2 mins of cliffhanger at the end to drag me back next week (Helloooo Walking Dead?). As the seasons wore on, I started getting more and more annoyed about the lack of storyline progress, and too much (and too thinly veiled) politics. I mean I thought it was a 180 degree improvement from the books. I know a lot of folks that love his books, some for the very reasons I can't stand them, and that's cool. I started the first book of GoT when it was initially released, and can say w/ 99% certainty that it's the only book I put down w/o finishing. I bounce through genres, styles, authors, etc, and (according to Goodreads) average just over 45 books a year, over the last 7 -8 years. I read a lot of books, and most of it is SciFi. Click to expand.I do have a bunch of series (Supernatural, Sons of Anarchy, Vikings, etc), but I have no desire to burn GoT.
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