Can I record a DVD from a Blu-ray?

Power DVD playing bluray and HD DVD?

• I have a GGC-H20L Bluray/HDDVD drive. I am using the Power DVD program that came with it, to play both HD DVD and bluray (and DVD) but the player is only working for some disks. On the ones it is not working on, you try and play the disk, the player loads, then there is a ping sound and the player closes. I have managed to play a Region 1 DVD (sourced from a different DVD drive) a German HD DVD (sourced from the HD DVD/Blu ray drive) I have tried playing a Blu ray, and HD DVDs from the USA and the UK (even though they are the same region code, but I was just testing. These all did the ping noise and the program closed. I have reinstalled the software a few times, then installed the Blu ray/HD DVD update a few times. This hasn't helped I have updated the driver for the player, this also hasn't helped. I have also cleaned the laser lens and the disks, this didn't help either. I am not sure what else to do Can anyone help!?!?!

• Answer:

  Do you have your computer connected to an HDCP compliant monitor via a digital (HDMI) connection? For copy-protection reasons, the Hollywood Movie Industry requires that Power DVD only playback protected High Definition content on computers (operating system and graphics card) which fully support HDCP encryption and are connected to an HDCP compliant display using a secure digital connection (with no possible loopholes/break in the connection chain). Note that not all discs may be copy-protected and this may explain varied playback behavior. A lot of people are up in arms because these ridiculous requirements are making it very difficult for genuine consumers to playback their legally purchased movies and the copy protection mechanisms are not actually effective at preventing copyright infringement, so they really just end up being a huge annoyance to consumers.