PowerDVD Problem?

I have a Dell Studio XPS 9000 (Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit) with one
DVD-R drive and one Blu-Ray writer. I also have the Dell version
of Power DVD (8.x) installed. I can play Blu-Ray discs just fine
but when I put a regular DVD into either drive, Media Center starts
and I get a screen that has a menu down the left side with choices
like Restart, Main Menu, Eject (I'm not at the computer at the moment).
On the right it also has all the info about the disc such as playing time,
encoding format, name of the disc, etc. The disc doesn't
play, however! I click every menu choice but nothing seems to
happen. The name of the disc scrolls across a box on the upper right
but nothing plays. I can play DVDs in Media Player but I'd rather
play them in Media Center. Does anyone know what's going on?

TIA

Tom Lake

"Tom Lake" <> wrote in
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> I have a Dell Studio XPS 9000 (Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit) with one
> DVD-R drive and one Blu-Ray writer. I also have the Dell version
> of Power DVD (8.x) installed. I can play Blu-Ray discs just fine
> but when I put a regular DVD into either drive, Media Center starts
> and I get a screen that has a menu down the left side with choices
> like Restart, Main Menu, Eject (I'm not at the computer at the
> moment). On the right it also has all the info about the disc such as
> playing time, encoding format, name of the disc, etc. The disc
> doesn't play, however! I click every menu choice but nothing seems to
> happen. The name of the disc scrolls across a box on the upper right
> but nothing plays. I can play DVDs in Media Player but I'd rather
> play them in Media Center. Does anyone know what's going on?
>
> TIA
>
> Tom Lake

No Blu-Ray support in Media Center.

PowerDVD 8 has a bug in the program.
You should upgrade to PowerDVD 10.

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> No Blu-Ray support in Media Center.
>
> PowerDVD 8 has a bug in the program.
> You should upgrade to PowerDVD 10.

I just did this morning and it seems so much better than
ver. 8. Thanks for the tip!

Tom Lake

To play Blu-Ray discs in your CD/DVD Rom on Media Center will not play
right.
But you can play it in Media Player!
So you can play it, so you do not need help in play a Blu-Ray discs!
Right


There is one the way I know how to play a Blu-Ray discs on Media Center is
in a DVD Play to a

"Tom Lake" <> wrote in message
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> I have a Dell Studio XPS 9000 (Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit) with one DVD-R drive
> and one Blu-Ray writer. I also have the Dell version of Power DVD (8.x)
> installed. I can play Blu-Ray discs just fine but when I put a regular
> DVD into either drive, Media Center starts and I get a screen that has a
> menu down the left side with choices like Restart, Main Menu, Eject (I'm
> not at the computer at the moment). On the right it also has all the info
> about the disc such as playing time, encoding format, name of the disc,
> etc. The disc doesn't
> play, however! I click every menu choice but nothing seems to happen.
> The name of the disc scrolls across a box on the upper right but nothing
> plays. I can play DVDs in Media Player but I'd rather
> play them in Media Center. Does anyone know what's going on?
>
> TIA
>
> Tom Lake

"Hot-text" <hot-> wrote in message
news:C624EB07-1515-4EE3-95AF-...
> To play Blu-Ray discs in your CD/DVD Rom on Media Center will not play right.
> But you can play it in Media Player!
> So you can play it, so you do not need help in play a Blu-Ray discs!
> Right
>
>
> There is one the way I know how to play a Blu-Ray discs on Media Center is in a DVD Play
> to a

I had no problem with Blu-Ray discs. My problem was that ordinary DVDs
weren't playing in PowerDVD. I'd put in a DVD and PowerDVD would come up
and show the name of the disc, what format it is, what the playing time is, etc.
In other words, it would do everything except actually play the disc! Thanks to a
previous reply, I upgraded to PowerDVD 10 3D and everything is hunky-dory
(I don't even know what "hunky-dory" means exactly!)

Tom Lake

"Tom Lake" <> wrote in
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>
> "Hot-text" <hot-> wrote in message
> news:C624EB07-1515-4EE3-95AF-...
>> To play Blu-Ray discs in your CD/DVD Rom on Media Center will not
>> play right. But you can play it in Media Player!
>> So you can play it, so you do not need help in play a Blu-Ray discs!
>> Right
>>
>>
>> There is one the way I know how to play a Blu-Ray discs on Media
>> Center is in a DVD Play to a
>
> I had no problem with Blu-Ray discs. My problem was that ordinary
> DVDs weren't playing in PowerDVD. I'd put in a DVD and PowerDVD would
> come up and show the name of the disc, what format it is, what the
> playing time is, etc. In other words, it would do everything except
> actually play the disc! Thanks to a previous reply, I upgraded to
> PowerDVD 10 3D and everything is hunky-dory (I don't even know what
> "hunky-dory" means exactly!)
>
> Tom Lake
>
>

http://www.answers.com/topic/hunky-dory

adj. Slang
Perfectly satisfactory; fine.

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"CSM1" <> wrote in message
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> "Tom Lake" <> wrote in
> news:B436A179-7FF7-4DC8-9DF9-:
>
>>> There is one the way I know how to play a Blu-Ray discs on Media
>>> Center is in a DVD Play to a
>>
>> I had no problem with Blu-Ray discs. My problem was that ordinary
>> DVDs weren't playing in PowerDVD. I'd put in a DVD and PowerDVD would
>> come up and show the name of the disc, what format it is, what the
>> playing time is, etc. In other words, it would do everything except
>> actually play the disc! Thanks to a previous reply, I upgraded to
>> PowerDVD 10 3D and everything is hunky-dory (I don't even know what
>> "hunky-dory" means exactly!)
>>
>> Tom Lake
>
> http://www.answers.com/topic/hunky-dory
>
> adj. Slang
> Perfectly satisfactory; fine.
> --
> CSM1
> http://www.carlmcmillan.com

And I thought Hunky-Dory was the couple that took the Ice Dancing Bronze at
the Olympics this year!?
--
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Bart: "According to creationism, there were no cavemen."
Homer: "Good riddance! Their drawings sucked and they looked like hippies."

"hunky-dory" means you a Red Neck
But that OK
It Works that all we need to know!

"Tom Lake" <> wrote in message
news:B436A179-7FF7-4DC8-9DF9-...
>
> "Hot-text" <hot-> wrote in message
> news:C624EB07-1515-4EE3-95AF-...
>> To play Blu-Ray discs in your CD/DVD Rom on Media Center will not play
>> right.
>> But you can play it in Media Player!
>> So you can play it, so you do not need help in play a Blu-Ray discs!
>> Right
>>
>>
>> There is one the way I know how to play a Blu-Ray discs on Media Center
>> is in a DVD Play to a
>
> I had no problem with Blu-Ray discs. My problem was that ordinary DVDs
> weren't playing in PowerDVD. I'd put in a DVD and PowerDVD would come up
> and show the name of the disc, what format it is, what the playing time
> is, etc.
> In other words, it would do everything except actually play the disc!
> Thanks to a
> previous reply, I upgraded to PowerDVD 10 3D and everything is hunky-dory
> (I don't even know what "hunky-dory" means exactly!)
>
> Tom Lake