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HD-DVD on Windows 10 with PowerDVD 7.3

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As I’ve had a lot of trouble getting my HD-DVD collection to work in Windows 10 I thought I’d write a quick guide to help others and remind myself next time I reinstall or upgrade.

Prerequisites –

First off connect your HD-DVD drive to your PC and let windows install the drivers for it.

Next install and activate PowerDVD 7.3, if you now try to play a disc it will say incompatible graphics card, so download the CyberLink.5711_TaRe43_DVD090826-05 patch above, now before running the patch go to C:\Windows\Installer (this is a hidden directory so make sure your windows options let you see hidden and system files), delete the contents of this directory, you may get some warnings just click ok.

Now install the patch.  Once this has completed run PowerDVD again, it may say critical updates are needed, I clicked to allow them, once PowerDVD responds again play your HD-DVD and it should work.

I also installed Slysoft AnyDVD HD to avoid encryption or region issues.

Update: I have a report that using AnyDVD HD with Kodi allows viewing of HD-DVD discs too.

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  1. Michael

    Thank you so much Daniel this worked perfect !

    Reply
    1. Daniel

      Glad it worked, I still have a few unwrapped HD-DVD’s and a, glad I can watch them still.

      Reply
  2. Michael

    Anyone else had a problem installing the patch under Windows 10 using the latest updates? PDVD complains about being unable to install using the scripted installation.

    Reply
    1. Daniel

      I haven’t tried reinstalling it yet, Windows 10 is a pain with it’s updates that stop programs running, I know it’s supposed to be for security and but it keeps stopping legitimate programs.

      Reply
  3. Mark

    Bugger, this didn’t work for my internal LG BD/HDDVD drive. Windows 10 seems to have removed HDDVD capability from the drive. DVDs & BDs allow me to ‘play’ but HDDVDs just show up as data. PowerDVD 7.3 autoplays them but then crashes. Looks like I’ll have to go digging to find my XBox HDDVD drive…

    Reply
    1. Daniel

      I haven’t tried using my old internal drive so thanks for letting me know, it’s annoying that VLC or similar don’t support HD DVD, I hope the xbox player works well for you and that Microsoft haven’t made any updates to stop that too.

      Reply
  4. Mark

    Success! Kind of… Plugged in the XBox drive, let Win10 install it & so far 6 of 6 HDDVDs play in the drive via PowerDVD. (Still no luck with the internal drive) Both drives just show HDDVDs as data but the XBox drive allows them to play via PowerDVD. Point of the exercise is to get the content onto my NAS before my HDDVD hardware dies. MakeMKV won’t open most of them and won’t process most of the rest (I’m sure it worked fine under Win7 & older version of MakeMKV). So far only 1 of 6 tried has actually read & processed so I think it is now a MakeMKV problem rather than a Drive / OS one… maybe.

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  5. Daniel

    Hmm maybe install slysoft anydvd, I think they did an hd dvd version at one point, have a vague memory of it helping with copying, let me know if you have any success as it would be nice to copy mine to my media server too.

    Reply
  6. cranpa1

    Don’t suppose you have the patch file anywhere do you?

    Reply
    1. Daniel

      I have uploaded it temporarily to https://blog.daniel-baker.photography/upload/CyberLink.5711_TaRe43_DVD090826-05.exe I will have to remove it if requested or my bandwidth becomes too high, hope it helps.

      Reply
  7. Michael Zoran

    Where can you download PowerDVD 7.3?

    Reply
  8. Reg Graham

    What version of Windows 10 did you use 32bit or 64bit I have tried on my main PC which is 64bit and it starts to play and exits out of PowerDVD.

    Reply
  9. Daniel

    I used Windows 10 64bit, maybe Microsoft have done an update which breaks it I haven’t tried in a while.

    Reply
  10. Blerim Zeqaj

    Hey Daniel, are you able to offer the complete Powerdvd 7.3 software somehow? This link doesn’t work anymore:
    https://blog.daniel-baker.photography/upload/CyberLink.5711_TaRe43_DVD090826-05.exe
    Thanks! Blerim

    Reply
    1. Daniel

      Try the link again, I may have to remove it if requested

      Reply
  11. Jordan Long

    Daniel – great write up. Do you have a link to PowerDVD 7.3?

    Reply
    1. Daniel

      Unfortunately not and my HD-DVD drive is playing up so I have no idea if this still works, I’m hoping it just needs cleaning, your best bet would be searching on torrent sites such as the pirate bay, I host the patch here but I can’t risk hosting the actual program.

      Reply
  12. Myles

    Hi Daniel, after much searching I found your blog to my great happiness! I wondered if you knew how to activate the power DVD 7.3 with all the new updates already done through Cyberlink? its asking for a 15 digit code which I don’t have anymore…..I also have a Xbox hd-dvd drive as well as the LG 5.25 internal HD-DVD Blu-ray drive. any help would be gratefully appreciated!

    Reply
    1. Daniel

      I have emailed you

      Reply
      1. J Long

        daniel, I am in the same position as Myles, would love an email too to discuss more. TIA

  13. Bill Taylor

    Hi Daniel, I am in the same position as Myles and J Long, would love an email too to discuss more. TIA

    Reply
    1. Daniel

      Hi Bill, I have emailed you

      Reply
      1. Jordan

        Good Day Daniel,

        Is it possible to receive the same email information as Bill?

        Best,
        Jordan

      2. Blerim Zeqaj

        Hi Daniel

        Sorry for bothering you! I have the same problem when it‘s about activating the software. Could you share the code with me too?

        Cheers from Switerland,

        Blerim

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