Going to buy a drive
Today, after getting out of work, I went to buy a Blu-Ray drive, so I can watch HD movies on my computer.
My computer is a big tower, with eSata and a few drives and enough horsepower to decode those Hi-Def movies. I even have a Windows 7 on it!
So, it should be working.
I went to my local computer store and bought a LG drive, pretty standard one.
Drive Installation
It took me some times to plug everything in, since my tower is a bit crowed, and my easy-to-access eSata ports are running short :D
Reboot and everything… Tada, it will work now :D
First playback… or not… and more installation
I put my new MGM movie in it. WMP12 doesn’t like it at all:
“Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD. The disc was created in a manner that the Player does not support”. Bleh, I’ll try the software from the DVD delivered with the drive.
Installation
I then install Blu-Ray Power Suite with a lot of software and PowerDVD installing 160MB of mess (why that much?). And I reboot.
After reboot, PowerDVD warns me about updates. I download 100MB from Internet and install them and reboot…
And so does the LG drive update firmware… And reboot…
At each start-up, they launches 4 software to enable “me”: brs.exe, PDVDServ.exe, Language.exe and fwupdate.exe. Why? Oh, why?
Second playback… or not…
Now that all is up-to-date, I can play movies, yay… not!
At each start, PowerDVD switches back from Aero to Basic colors and ask me to register: “I DON’T WANT TO REGISTER, YOU BAST**D”!
And, it still doesn’t work, with any of my discs, because it wants HDCP, and I use my old DVI to connect to my screen…
Conclusion
Blu-Ray: 1 - 0 :JB
Let’s see how this will go on: in part 2.