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Why does a Blu-ray DVD player program for Windows cost more than an actual DVD player?!?
When I got my PC I stuck an after-market Blu-ray drive in the second bay, not realizing that you need a special program to actually USE it. So when I watch a DVD (I got rid of my television), I stick to the old format. But if somebody lends me a BR, I'm fucked.
I ripped a friend's BR DVD to watch using MakeMKV beta in a LINUX VM on said PC, but that has been my only success.
I looked on Amazon and the high end player programs are $60-$70. I'd rather pay $20-$30, but the ones in that price range look pretty iffy.
Is there some option I'm overlooking? Wouldn't even buying a physical BR player and trying to hook it up to a monitor fail because copy protection???
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>>61531928
>Using proprietary media
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It's free if you look hard enough...
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>>61531928
This is literally the only good reason for piracy, don't get me wrong I fully get piracy, Fuck paying for games and music, but 90% of people can afford them, including me. But shit like this where you need $70 on top of your player and DVD's is retarded.
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test2
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>>61531996
fse
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>>61531928
blu-ray on PC is for making and ripping blu-rays, not watching the DRMed crap in it
you better have bought a writer and not a reader-only device
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>>61532219
It's an ASUS BC-12B1ST. Why would I want to rip/make blu-rays, if I can't watch?
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>>61532219
PC is the only way I've ever watched blu-rays, but I have a niche use. I don't own any discs; I subscribe to the Netflix DVD mail service. I get a disk in the mail, rip it as an .iso file using AnyDVD and send it back, then play back at my convenience. I delete the rips after I watch them because I don't generally watch a movie more than once without a significant amount of time passing and I'm not investing in huge terabytes of storage to keep them all.
P.S. - PowerDVD is the only legit PC software option left; all the rest are shitty scams. ArcSoft TMT was good but the company dropped the product and it doesn't work on W10.
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>>61532619
Dude you sound autistic. What your PC improves the image quality of the dvd or what?
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>>61532619
powerdvd is shit. use mpchc + anydvd, or you could just download the movies like a normal person.
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>>61532666
>you could just download the movies like a normal person
[holding the actual movie in my hand] Hmm, I'd better download this!
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>>61532619
Thanks for responding. 60/100 EUR year/lifetime would be worth it if I watched a lot of Blu-rays. (I'm fairly confident PowerDVD would offer free upgrades.)
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>>61532661
Do you have comprehension problems? I don't own any discs. I rip and save them so I can get the disc back to Netflix ASAP so they send out the next one. That way I can watch 2-3 movies on the weekend when I have time instead of just one.
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>>61532753
I've never payed for PowerDVD. ;)
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>>61531928
vlc can play bluray
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>>61534377
If you've got some codec that allows it to do, please share it.
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>>61534645
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Blu-ray#VLC
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>>61534790
>loonix
Get the fuck outta here, freetard
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>>61534835
enjoy your bluray :^)
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