So, basically, the only place that's safe to play the discs is in one of the two Blu-ray players available on the market or in an as-yet vaporific PlayStation 3. The Samsung BD-P1000 in our home-theater testing lab couldn't find a disc menu on my test disc. And sure enough, it failed to eject from another HD player. In order for a desktop system to recognize the discs, you must install Sony's Picture and Motion Browser software, with its two appendages: a Media Check utility that intercepts calls to any camcorder or media that might have M2TS files on it, and a Sonic UDF driver that allows your system to actually read the AVCHD disc file structure.



Link: CNET