This keeps on being reposted. 1) its not blurays as a whole just UHD blurays 2) it has nothing to do with the technical capabilities of the chip to playback t

This keeps on being reposted. 1) its not blurays as a whole just UHD blurays 2) it has nothing to do with the technical capabilities of the chip to playback the codecs, but simply to do with AACS's lack of desire to license playback without sgx availability 3) as noted elsewhere with anydvd/makemkv this just hurts regular users as the ability to decrypt and playback UHD blurays is readily available and one can't easily put that genie back in the bottle. 4) As a caveat to #3, AACS hasn't been broken (as opposed to DVD's CSS), its just well understood and people know how to put the effort in to exfiltrate player keys from devices. As each player key can be used to figure out the volume unique key (VUK in terminology), its "easy" enough to make a database of VUKs for each unique disc that one encounters. Of course player keys can be revoked and then not be able to used to generate newer VUKs (happens with newer MKB revisions) so then people have to exfiltrate a new player key. In fact, AnyDVD basically does this itself, you can make a bit perfect image of a bluray (making an assumption you have an old drive that avoids bus encryption, or use other mechanisms, say libredrive, to prevent it) and assuming AnyDVD has seen the disc before (anywhere thats connected to the internet and their servers), it will be able to decrypt the encrypted image. This is opposed to DVDs, no special areas of the disc unreadable by normal mechanisms are used on blurays, for DVDs while one can also make an encrypted image and decrypt it, one is then limited to normal DeCSS brute force methods that require a certain amount of data to work so dont work on the smallest of files, in practice, this limitation doesn't matter much and is more noted for technical interest.