Half the Blu-Ray discs I get are unwatchable because they try to force you to watch 20 minutes of commercials before they let you get to the menu. Fortunately, every decent Blu-Ray player provides a way to bypass this and skip straight to the menu so you can start the movie. The physical players usually have upgradeable firmware. And all the software players I've tried, except PowerDVD, let you skip the commercials. But, with PowerDVD, when you put a Blu-ray disc in and the commercials start, the 'title menu', 'root menu', the jump to a specific title, etc., are all grayed out and disabled, so there's no way to actually start the movie!

So unless you've got nothing else to do with your life than mindlessly start at 20 minutes of commercials before being allowed to watch your movie, it's impossible to watch Blu-Ray movies on PowerDVD, and PowerDVD just isn't a viable option for Blu-Ray. But, I still buy PowerDVD *ONLY* because I'm trying to learn Spanish and PowerDVD is the only media player that let's you watch Spanish movies with both English and Spanish sub-titles (the other major media players don't have secondary sub-titles). So I have to use PowerDVD for Spanish DVD's only, and another media player for Blu-Ray's.

I just upgraded to version 12 hoping PowerDVD would have finally fixed this glaring problem of the 'grayed out menu/title' options, so I could use PowerDVD for Blu-Ray's too, but the problem still exists, so PowerDVD still isn't viable for Blu-Ray.

Are you guys EVER going to fix this so PowerDVD will let you skip the commercials, like the other Blu-Ray software players do?