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

[BijouMan]

Originally Posted by HDTV1080P

Sadly, your post came true. The playback of both 4K Blu-ray discs and Blu-ray 3D discs is now officially dead to the over 1.4 billion Windows 10 and Windows 11 owners. Cyberlink was the only Windows software that supported 4K Blu-ray discs and as of November 2023 the company basically is telling everyone that they no longer support 4K Blu-ray playback on a Windows PC. The main problem is that no one is making new computers with the SGX security technology built into the CPU and motherboard BIOS. SGX is the only approved hardware based security technogy that is approved by the BDA.

Most likely everyone making 4K BD-ROM computer drives will now cease production, since no need to make a 4K BD-ROM drive if there is no longer any official software to playback the media. Cyberlink is recommending consumer go buy a standalone 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player. But who knows for some companies 2023 might be the last year that standalone 4K Blu-ray players remain in production including possible 2K Blu-ray players. This is another negative blow to the 4K Blu-ray format with no computer operating system supporting the disc format. But at least for the standard 2K Blu-ray format over 1.4 billion Windows PC’s are supported, including the old Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating system.

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“This is a tough decision, but we have decided to cease the UHD BD playback features and the corresponding online authentication in the latest version of PowerDVD 22 and PowerDVD 365 after October, 2023. As a result, UHD BDs will become unplayable in PowerDVD.”

https://www.cyberlink.com/support-ce...ntent?id=28347

Would it still work in PowerDVD 21 and earlier on the machines that had SGX? Pioneer still includes PowerDVD 14 with its drives.