PowerDVD to view Blu Ray discs on WinXP or Win7 under Bootcamp

Trying to get a solution for playing BR discs on my MacBook Pro (with USB attached Pioneer BD Burner/Player). It would appear that Bootcamp is the way forward, but due to the way in which my partitions are set up, this will be a bit of a pain...
So before I embark on that, might I ask here if anyone has seen PowerDVD (or any other BR player) working on a Bootcamped MacBook Pro (late 2008 model)?
Thanks.

I too am trying to achieve this - there are load of threads on this, but I haven't found one which gives a conclusive 'this definately works and here's how' answer.
I've got the LG BE12LU30 (which is recognised in OS 10.6.6). It comes with the PowerDVD software (Windows only) so I installed Windows 7 with Parallels 6 to run it. Unfortunately the CyberLink Advisor doesn't 'see' the NVIDA GeForce 9600 GT graphics card in my Macbook Pro, instead it sees a virtual Parallels graphics controller and won't play blu-rays.
Next, I installed Windows 7 (32 bit) in boot camp (so far no problems with Windows 7 in Parallels and boot camp with regards to licencing) and loaded PowerDVD. This time the NVIDA graphics card is recognised by the Advisor (green lights on basic, although in Advanced playback it says my system can't play dual-feed video - why or how I fix this I have no idea. In any case when I put a blu-ray in the player, PowerDVD program initialises but won't play the movie, stating that the graphics card is not compatible. That was with, as far as I can tell, a standard blu-ray (no dual-feed required (?), certainly not 3D)
Anyway, left a query with CyberLink - not holding my breath their, I gather they don't bother answering the trickier questions. I also left a query with LG (who supplied the software) they suggested updating my drivers from the boot camp website.
Pretty vague eh? I'm considering spanking yet more money on a different windows blu-ray player, maybe Corel WinDVD 2010, I've actually seen that working on Windows 7 (albeit a Sony Vaio laptop).
I didn't realise that you could install Windows 7 64 bit on boot camp, until I started routing around the boot camp support website, so I might attempt a reinstall - doubt it'll make much difference.
Also, on a couple of forums people talk about the Macbook Pro display not being HDCP compliant. I don't know what that actually means, but I was led to believe the Macbook pro 17" display is HD (maybe not HDCP).
The most annoying thing is reading the odd thread where someone says 'it works fine' with little to no detail!

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