Babylon A.D. blu-ray - No Playback

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Babylon A.D. blu-ray won't play on my PC. Pressing play causes WinDVD9 to crash and PowerDVD8 to just sit there like a dumb fuck.

I have the LG GC-H20L Blu-ray drive with copies of WinDVD9 Plus and PowerDVD8 Ultra running on Vista 64. I have updated the firmware on my drive to 1.03 which is the newest. No matter which patch I download neither WinDVD9 or PowerDVD8 will update. That's pretty frustrating. Even more frustrating they say shit like "this patch is only for the blu-ray version of PowerDVD8"... yeah that's the fucking version I have.

Anyhow just wondering if anyone else has a problem getting this disc to play? I'm guessing it's the effect of the wonderful DRM that is constantly getting shoved down our throats lately. Honestly, I'm somewhat of a tech person and I can barely count on shit working lately. Blu-ray is looking to be too much trouble for the average consumer... like my brother-in-law or parents would have any idea how to update firmware or go through the HDCP compliance hoops. What a revolting situation.
 
If it is a DRM problem you'll probably have to wait for a new patch/firmware. If it isn't' you can try reinstalling the aforementioned programs and see what happens.

The problem is that your parents or brother-in-law wouldn't play a blu ray from their PC. They drop it in their blu ray player or PS3 and could care less about DRM.

Playing blu rays from a PC isn't nearly as common a use case, so they (Blu ray producers) simply don't care.
 
I'm retarded sometimes. I was trying to download patches for the wrong version of PowerDvD. I have PowerDVD7 Ultra, not 8, lol. So, it works now. Can't get it to work in WinDVD9 though, but I'm starting to get used to that.
 
not worth it anyways.....

i just watched it and it wasnt anything great... or even good :(
 
Yeah, I've heard it's awful but I watch most anything with a big special effects budget. Too bad the patch I got for WinDVD downgraded it to 2 channel... tested with Rambo which had amazing surround last time I played it. So I reverted to the surround-capable version that won't play Babylon A.D. ... $7.50 down the drain.

So I'll probably start looking around for a blu-ray player. When a decent one hits $150 I'll pick it up.
 
I just watched it on my HTPC about 2 days ago......not worth the time. Anyways, you should head over to slysoft.com and buy anydvd while you still have a chance to get lifetime free updates. I used Slysoft AnyDVD as well as Total Media Theater to play it.
 
iwant anydvdHD lifetime but $86 US is steep.... i know it just gets more expensive..... :(
 
Welcome to the joys of HD media and the home computer!

Between the DRM system designed by IP lawyers rather then engineers and continual changes to the {standards}, its not for the weak willed.
 
I have the LG GGC-H20L blu-ray drive also. Babylon A.D. will not play for me either. I just watched Bangkok Dangerous on Blu-Ray with no problems. When trying to play Babylon A.D., the player tries to load the disc but hangs forever.

I have PowerDVD 8.0 Ultra patched to version 2217a. The firmware for the LG drive is patched to 1.03 also. I am using Windows XP Pro w/SP3 and all updates applied to date. Everything else is up to date too.
 
Blu-ray is fun. It's especially fun when you have guests over and the movie you just rented/bought won't work and even AnyDVD HD won't make it work. I've stopped buying and renting Blu-ray movies.
 
I picked up AnyDVD before the 1st, and now I see that it was extended to the 11th of Jan. Now I see that it has been extended (again) til the 18th! :mad:

I could have bought something else during that time.....

W1retap, have you given up on Blu-Ray?!? You have been my Yoda....
 
Now you can't just give up on them all together, you just have to test the new product before the presentation per say. I try to never sit down to watch a new movie with the wife without first throwing it in by myself to make sure it plays nice.
 
Omegas said:
Now you can't just give up on them all together, you just have to test the new product before the presentation per say. I try to never sit down to watch a new movie with the wife without first throwing it in by myself to make sure it plays nice.
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Right..... that's not how it's supposed to work. You're supposed to pop in a movie and it plays perfectly. That's why I paid the money I did for my setup.

I haven't given up on Blu-ray though, I just don't buy them, rent them, or watch them from the disk.
 
w1retap said:
Right..... that's not how it's supposed to work. You're supposed to pop in a movie and it plays perfectly. That's why I paid the money I did for my setup.

I haven't given up on Blu-ray though, I just don't buy them, rent them, or watch them from the disk.
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I didn't pay a lot of money for my blu-ray setup, just paid $90 for the driver, $70 TMT, and $88 Slysoft and I am all set. I don't considerer it alot of money, lemme just say "Blockbuster Blu-Ray Rentals , Slysoft, and MyMovies love one another" .
 
I got WinDVD9 to apply the latest update by uninstalling and doing some manual registry and folder clean-up before reinstalling. So I'm happy again. Still haven't seen Babylon A.D., but I'm sure I'm not missing much.
 
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