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Don't you need a firmware update on the BluRay player to be able to read certain BluRay discs?
by pier25 4y ago
Don't you need a firmware update on the BluRay player to be able to read certain BluRay discs?
- babypuncher 4y agoYou will likely need custom firmware to read 4K Blu-Ray discs with MakeMKV unless you have a BDXL drive that was purchased before 4K discs came out. These firmwares are provided by the developer of MakeMKV on his forum. For standard Blu-Ray discs, nothing special is needed. Any Blu-Ray drive will work out of the box.
- Flameancer 4y agoActually pioneer drives work out of the box without custom firmware I’ve brought two of them before a standard blu-ray and a 4k one. Both worked out of the box.
- pier25 4y agoWhat models are these? I have a collection of about a hundred physical 4K BluRays that I would like to rip and upload to my Plex server. I just hate using my physical BluRay player. The reproduction is good, super stable, but it's noisy and clunky. I've thought about buying a new player but good players are expensive and I'm not sure I want to keep investing money on physical media. I live in Mexico and for some reason Amazon US has stopped shipping most BluRay discs here. The selection of titles available in Mexico is much more limited and the prices are so much higher. 4K HDR streaming is really good these days. I rarely feel like the compression is noticeably worse than when watching a BluRay.