Nero 8 Ultra Can't Play Blu-ray & HD DVD Movies...

no it is not. thats what anydvd is for. dell 20in ultrasharp

 

Since you are the only one here reported successful Blu-ray play and you use Nvidia 7950 GX2, which has 2 GPUs, I just upgraded mine from ATI radeon HD3870 to a HD3870 X2. And interesting enough, it works! Now I can play both Blu-ray and HD-DVD from my PC with Nero 8! I also found I have to disable one of the displays (I can't show movies on both monitor and HDTV).

So the conclusion here is simple: It's all about money! If you want to play HD movies from your PC, you have to spend enough money on your video card that matches the price of a HD player.

 

my god that some serious graphic card power to watch a movie and expense, doesnt seem right does it? will it ever take off to full main stream?

is it worth spending a 1000 on a 10 dollar film?

maybe just rip it/convert to play on normal pc?

 

yeah good luck with blu-ray which is sill the devil in my opinion but HD DVD you can convert. i have most of my collection down to 720p for size but mainly for playback on a 360. thats why it should have won HD DVD is much more consumer friendly. But i would say that the minimum requiremnts for nero's hd playback should be updtaed, mainly the video card. process doesnt play that much role i dont think. i only have about 30-50 cpu usage when playing them.

 

If think it in a more positive way, this $500 card can also be used for gaming, video editing, etc....

I just found Nero 8 can't play Across Universe (Blu-ray). I haven't found any HD DVD it can't play yet. This must be the security key problem PowerDVD was talking about and I will wait for the next Nero upgrade.

But does anybody know why hardware Blu-ray or HD DVD players don't need such a "key" to work? Why only software players?

 

Since Nero has been staying on v8.2.8.0 for a long time now, I guess they are having trouble trying to make their Blu-ray/HD DVD player work.

So I decided to go PowerDVD. I just bought this PowerDVD Ultra 7.3 and found it plays every Blu-ray/HD DVD movies I have without any problem! It also never jerk like Nero does sometimes.

So from now on, I will only let Nero do what it can do best: Burning! And let other work to the professionals. I really don't think it's a good idea to make an "All-in-One" product.

 

new nero v8 3 2 1 update

 

Actually I just downloaded that version last night and it took me almost the whole night. I haven't tried it yet and I will drop my "Across Universe" in first thing tonight and see if it will play.

 

I just tried "Across the Universe" with this Nero new version and found it works! So I have to give Nero credit for their improvement. But I still think PowerDVD is your best bet if you want to play Blu-ray/HD DVDs. Especially if you know you can buy a full legal copy of it for less than $10!

 

I too can confirm that the new Nero version does work with all 6 of the Blue-Ray titles that I currently have available.
It also works with ANyDVD enabled.
Too bad Nero decided to start taking payment for the previous versions which didn't work. Not ethical, but typical!