Ive talked about playing Blu-ray movies on your PC before. I thought Id take a quick moment to highlight another wonderful app for Windows 7 that includes Blu-ray playback support: Cyberlink PowerDVD 10 Mark II.

Along with the standard Blu-ray playback support, if you have a 3D PC using PowerDVD 10 you can play 3D Blu-ray movies as well! PowerDVD 10 also upscales regular DVDs when output to an HDTV for higher quality and clarity. PowerDVD 10 also supports high-definition audio formats from Dolby Digital and DTS. For a more complete overview of PowerDVD 10, click here.

PowerDVD 10 also utilizes several Windows 7 features such as Taskbar Previews where you can stop, play rewind for fast forward video content you are playing.

You can also right-click on PowerDVD 10 on your taskbar to take advantage of PowerDVDs Jump List which features quick tasks such as accessing your Blu-ray player or opening media files.

And if youre an extensive Windows Media Center user like me, when PowerDVD 10 is installed, it creates a menu option within Windows Media Center which enables quick access to PowerDVD 10 right from Windows Media Center.

You can download a free trial of Cyberlink PowerDVD 10 here.

With Cyberlink’s PowerDVD Ultra no longer playing hard drive based HD movies from ripped HD-DVDs and Blu-ray discs, the only way to watch such movies is to “mount” an ISO image of the disc and then watch it using PowerDVD. Not an easy thing to do while in Vista Media Center. MyMounter, brought to you by the makers of MyTV, is a plugin designed to streamline the ISO process with VMC.

In order to use MyMounter, you need the following programs: Daemon Tools, AnyDVD HD, and Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra. Those programs let you rip, mount an image, and watch the movie. Basically, MyMounter scans your files looking for ISO images. Through VMC, you decide which one you want to load. As has always been the case, PowerDVD will be loaded outside of VMC, returning to the VMC interface once the movie is done.

Mounting ISO images has always been popular for gamers, allowing someone to play a game without an actual disc. I would love to see a MyMovies equivalent for video games using MyMounter.
I have not had time to test out this plugin. Once I have, I will post my thoughts.