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

[apollo828]

Originally Posted by BijouMan

I would assume that the vast majority of non-Apple machines sold from 2016 to 2020 had the required computing hardware, such as the onboard GPU. All you would have needed was a UHD Blu-ray-capable disc drive. The only time you wouldn't have had an onboard GPU was if you either chose AMD instead of Intel or used or built a machine with a server-based CPU which not many people needed or wanted.

*sigh* We went over this a million times when you were upset that your MBP couldn't (legally) play 4K Blus. If the spec isn't met, it won't happen. If nobody's willing to pay for the work required to getting a new method licensed, it won't get done. If orgs like NVidia and Apple refuse to play ball and help out, especially when it potentially involved getting deep into security features that may not be documented publicly, it's not gonna happen. The BDA refuses to license solutions that put the keys in "open" memory. Until that changes, legal playback is now officially dead on PCs.

There was a video on YouTube of someone unboxing one of these disc drives and using it to play the UHD Blu-ray of Predator on a pretty typical higher-end laptop of the time, but it appears to have been taken down.

They played a rip or a normal Blu, the latter possibly using DVDGo or whatever that one licensed Mac player is called. That's it.

[BijouMan]

Originally Posted by apollo828

*sigh* We went over this a million times when you were upset that your MBP couldn't (legally) play 4K Blus. If the spec isn't met, it won't happen. If nobody's willing to pay for the work required to getting a new method licensed, it won't get done. If orgs like NVidia and Apple refuse to play ball and help out, especially when it potentially involved getting deep into security features that may not be documented publicly, it's not gonna happen. The BDA refuses to license solutions that put the keys in "open" memory. Until that changes, legal playback is now officially dead on PCs.

They played a rip or a normal Blu, the latter possibly using DVDGo or whatever that one licensed Mac player is called. That's it.

The computer wasn't an Apple machine. The person played it through PowerDVD.