Never had a BD drive in a laptop, went straight from a DVD/CD drive to no optical drives. Does Windows even support BD copyright protection these days?
Nope. It will fail to read. You have to use community software along with definitely illegitimate key files to decode most any commercial release. On top of this, some predatory releases will scramble the chapters unless you know which playlist to select out of hundreds, which is information passed to PowerDVD and literally no one else (within the PC software space).
I put one in my laptop over a decade ago just because I could. I didn’t ever get any actual use out of it. It was an utter waste of money but party because I didn’t know what software I needed to use it, which was due to me not knowing I needed proprietary software to properly use it to watch movies.
Never had a BD drive in a laptop, went straight from a DVD/CD drive to no optical drives. Does Windows even support BD copyright protection these days?
Literally the only legitimate way to watch encrypted Blu-rays on Windows is with CyberShot PowerDVD.
Not even VLC?
Nope. It will fail to read. You have to use community software along with definitely illegitimate key files to decode most any commercial release. On top of this, some predatory releases will scramble the chapters unless you know which playlist to select out of hundreds, which is information passed to PowerDVD and literally no one else (within the PC software space).
MakeMKV works too.
Key word legitimate. Without the community key files it doesn’t do anything on its own.
I’ve never had a BD anything. Unless the PS4 did them, but I’d never had needed to know.
yes PS4 was bluray.
I put one in my laptop over a decade ago just because I could. I didn’t ever get any actual use out of it. It was an utter waste of money but party because I didn’t know what software I needed to use it, which was due to me not knowing I needed proprietary software to properly use it to watch movies.