4K UHD Blu-ray Playback on PC Desktop is officially dead in 2021?

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Pluton lands in mid/late 2022, as part of Intel's newest offerings, and will handle the security keys for all protected media in Windows 11. It is already used for UHD-BD playback in consoles. It is backwards compatible with currently used security hardware and software implementations, so there should be no problem with either Cyberlink or Corel media players. It will eventually be integrated into mobile/embedded SOCs, which will allow for things like connecting a UHD-BD drive to a Smart TV and using the TV's software and hardware to play a disc, which is something already being done with the format's predecessors.