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

[BijouMan]

Originally Posted by usually_quiet

Impossible to predict.


No. There is no indication that new Macs will include Pluton processors. If theoretically, the BDA approved only those CPUs with Pluton processors for UHD Blu-ray playback, why would a rational person think for one minute the new Macs would qualify for UHD playback without Pluton?


Except for the premium models, UHD Blu-ray players may already be on their way to being discontinued. Samsung isn't making UHD Blu-ray players any longer.

Apple Silicon inherently has hardware-based security features including a Secure Enclave that the BDA could easily approve of, and since Apple machines make up a very large part of the computing industry, these need to get attention as well. Pluton is basically Microsoft's version of Apple's security hardware, designed for processors outside the Apple ecosystem.