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

[apollo828]

Originally Posted by HDTV1080P

Once again, all the Pioneer BDXL drives in 2015 and even in 2016 would not read 4K Blu-ray discs. It was not until Pioneer released a BDXL drive with the official “Ultra HD Blu-ray” logo was one able to read 4K Blu-ray discs.

Take that up with Pioneer. I don't use Pioneer gear. Sounds like they sold you a fake bill of goods, as mentioned earlier when I wrote about how Pioneer reportedly gimps their firmware. At the physical level, UHD discs are essentially BDXL discs. If Pioneer BDXL drives without BDA's blessing can't read them at all, that's Pioneer's problem.

Meanwhile, LG was kind enough to make hardware revisions to old Blu drives going back to 2014, allowing the revised models to read BDXL discs and, by extension, UHD discs. What's your explanation for that if it's supposedly impossible to read UHD discs without being blessed by the BDA?