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

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Originally Posted by BijouMan

Ultra HD Blu-ray was not even a thing in 2015. It came out in 2016.

Yes that is true 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray players launched in 2016. I was just stating a fact that there are many BDXL drives from 2015-2022 that will not read 4K Bu-ray discs. Pioneer appears to have went 100% BDXL computer drives around November of 2022, and only four of those 2022 models work with 4K Blu-ray discs, many of the modern-day Pioneer BDXL drives made in 2022 according to the specs do not read 4K Blu-ray discs. But all this is a non-issue since in November 2023 no company offers software anymore to playback 4K Blu-ray discs on a Windows PC.

This thread in theory will die and the remaining PowerDVD 17 through 22 Ultra owners will just go out and buy a standalone 4K Blu-ray player or switch to 4K Ultra HD streaming from Netflix, Amazon or another provider.