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... It is good to hear you have not had issues. ... Interestingly I have just installed AnyDVD and now PowerDVD10 will recognise Bluray disks. ...
Hi Mark,
Actually, I have had issues. I have a lot of movies on blu-ray and PowerDVD 10 Ultra croaked on one of them: District 9. (District 9 is a "hybrid" blu-ray disc with both the HD movie and a PS3 game.) I would get an invalid disc error from PowerDVD 10 Ultra whenever I tried to play the District 9 movie. AnyDVD HD fixed the issue for me as well.
Other users of PowerDVD 10 Ultra reported that they were able to use the Disctrict 9 blu-ray. So the problem seemed to be unique to my system.
I boiled it down to two possible causes: a Windows XP problem (my entertainment computer uses XP Media Center Edition) or the age of my blu-ray drive (a Sony BWUK-100A). My blu-ray drive has the latest firmware, too, (1.0f) but it has been well over a year since Sony updated it. This may be because it is one of their early drives and they may not support it as well as they used to.
Because AnyDVD HD fixed the problem for me, I'm tending to think the problem was the Sony firmware---it probably doesn't support the security features of the District 9 disc and, by disabling them, AnyDVD HD removed the problem.
Your issue sounds like a driver issue to me. One problem that I've run into is that you often need to remove an old driver before you install a new one. For example, some of the NVidia drivers will let you install them on top of an older version. But most of the time you need to remove the old one first. If you don't do this, you may still have some old system files in your computer that muck things up. And a program like PowerDVD 10 seems to be very sensitive to driver issues.
Kind regards, David
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