



Vista SP2 Adds Blu-ray Support Posted May 26, 2009 09:29 AM by Josh Dreuth



Microsoft has publicly released Vista Service Pack 2 as a stand-alone download today, with an inclusion to Windows Update expected within the next few weeks. The big news for owners of the PC-kind is a new feature which allows those users with Blu-ray Disc drives to burn directly to the disc using Windows Explorer.



While Windows DVD Maker still lacks support, you will be able to format the high definition media via Explorer, as well as drag-and-drop and delete files from the discs.



If you're not brave enough to download the file, expect to see it as a pushed update soon.





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Top contributor Xerios May 26, 2009 better late than never... i guess

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Top contributor ShaggyDude May 26, 2009 This will be news when Microsoft (or Apple) actually supports blu-ray movie PLAYBACK without 3rd party software.

aygie May 26, 2009 Shaggy I'm hoping for more info for Apple at WWDC

doctorD May 26, 2009 Apple better step up to the plate! Unless some announcement is made soon in support of Blu-ray, they are about to get beat out by MS.

pointless May 26, 2009 As ShaggyDude says, this is just for data backup purposes and NOT about natively playing Blu-ray movies.

mustang-gt-2002 May 27, 2009 I dont want Microsoft to have Blu-ray anything. they are the ones that tryed to stop Blu-ray. by backing HD-DVD so that downloading would take over. lightbox May 27, 2009 This seems like a wasted effort considering the short life expectancy of Vista. It will probably be in place for Windows 7, but should be integrated in any future SP releases for XP.

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