PC Blu Ray drives

[Masque]

Was wondering: are internal PC Blu Rays better looking (in 1080p) than PC DVDs?

Thinking about getting a Blu Ray player, but only if the quality is better than DVD at 1080p.

None of the entries at Amazon for either internal or external PC Blu Ray drives mention literally ANYTHING about playback of Blu Ray discs. None of the comments and reviews mention anything about disc playback either. Which is why I ask here. It seems that 99.9 percent of the people using Blu Ray drives on their PC are using it to rip their movies -- not play them from disc.

[Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}]

yep got my external bluray drive all rdy

[Qbert ⭐]

I think it was an example, not a "you MUST get that thing"

Plennty options in the market.... I still think it's better to rip them

[mtono]

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Цитата допису secret_agent_man:

my comment:
i have quit blu-ray generally, because it is a mess to make blu-ray movie run anyway with windows in my case.. i always failed to be happy with it. i have 24" monitor and dvd looks good enough with dvd. above 32" blu-ray may look better, but always errors and such. what could you do? i cant say. with dvd movies everything works for me. i have lots of them.
isnt mpc (media player classic) supporting blu-ray? i dunno. mpc is free.

byebye

Would I be better off just buying a standalone blu ray player, do you think?

I don't need the writing functionality, at all. Just playing.

yes. generally hardware is always better. i would go for a standalone blu ray player.
my2ct

[_I_]

most boxed bd drives come with a key for bd player software

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If just for watching movies, yea I wouldn't waste the time and money.
As you could get a standalone bluray player for around $49 that can play 1080p and 4K Bluray movie discs and can hookup to any Display via HDMI.

It be another thing if you needed a reliable Burner. Otherwise Bluray Movie Discs via PC is somewhat a pointless venture.

[mtono]

pointless but interesting^^
(i mean the blu ray thing with pc)

[emoticorpse]

Цитата допису Bad 💀 Motha:

If just for watching movies, yea I wouldn't waste the time and money.
As you could get a standalone bluray player for around $49 that can play 1080p and 4K Bluray movie discs and can hookup to any Display via HDMI.

It be another thing if you needed a reliable Burner. Otherwise Bluray Movie Discs via PC is somewhat a pointless venture.

As far as I can tell 4k bluray players are at least $170 or around there. Regular bluray players are around $75.

[Masque]

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most boxed bd drives come with a key for bd player software

Is a good point.

Цитата допису Bad 💀 Motha:

If just for watching movies, yea I wouldn't waste the time and money.
As you could get a standalone bluray player for around $49 that can play 1080p and 4K Bluray movie discs and can hookup to any Display via HDMI.

It be another thing if you needed a reliable Burner. Otherwise Bluray Movie Discs via PC is somewhat a pointless venture.

I think my mind is made up. I'll just get a standalone player and not worry about using my PC for this. Thanks all for the knowledge.

[emoticorpse]

Цитата допису Bad 💀 Motha:

Sony Bluray Player
1080p, 4K, 3D and also DVD Upscaling
Amazon @ $149

Out of curiosity, are you talking about the BDP-S6700 model on Amazon? Because I took at look at it and something seems weird to me. I'm wondering if that's a typo because that same model (even if not the one you're talking about) looks like it's $119 on BestBuy.

But on BestBuy in the main name of the product doesn't say anything about playing 4k discs, but in the specs does say it's "4K UHD Blu-ray Player" is the kind of optical drive it has.

In the Amazon comments, one person about that BDP-S6700 model says that it doesn't play 4k UHD discs which is what I would imagine, but now I'm just confused on that product and wondering what's up between both sites (wouldn't be surprised if they both just scrambled the data/info on it getting it wrong because "oh well").

[PopinFRESH]

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Цитата допису Bad 💀 Motha:

Sony Bluray Player
1080p, 4K, 3D and also DVD Upscaling
Amazon @ $149

Out of curiosity, are you talking about the BDP-S6700 model on Amazon? Because I took at look at it and something seems weird to me. I'm wondering if that's a typo because that same model (even if not the one you're talking about) looks like it's $119 on BestBuy.

But on BestBuy in the main name of the product doesn't say anything about playing 4k discs, but in the specs does say it's "4K UHD Blu-ray Player" is the kind of optical drive it has.

In the Amazon comments, one person about that BDP-S6700 model says that it doesn't play 4k UHD discs which is what I would imagine, but now I'm just confused on that product and wondering what's up between both sites (wouldn't be surprised if they both just scrambled the data/info on it getting it wrong because "oh well").

It doesn't play 4K UHD Bluray disks. It has 4K upscaling from regular bluray disks.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Sorry, even Iwas mislead there. I had to look up the exact model for further details.

S6700 is only 4K Upscaling. Will not provide playback for 4K Bluray Discs

X700M is True 4K and also supports HDR as well as Dolby Vision and Atmos and is Region-Free. It will of course be able to also upscale 1080p Bluray and also DVD up to 4K res.

The X700M can be found online at various retailers for around $150-160 range (was $260 from Sony, which they now sell for $180

Sorry for any confusion.

Keep in mind most Bluray movies are 1080p. Only the ones that came out in the last couple years are 4K

Seems a bit ridiculous as I remember being able to get 1080p Sony Bluray players at BestBuy and Walmart years ago for $49

It's kind of why I got away from discs completely around 2015 and continued just downloading all movies and shows, which I was mostly already doing since around 2004 or so but I did have over 500 movies on DVD/BR.

You'll go broke buying this stuff on discs and then years from now you won't have any ways to use it.

[Sigma957]

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Цитата допису Sigma957:

Yes Blu-ray PC drives look better than DVD drives during playback. Also if you go for external get one that is powered off USB-C as the power block ones that plug into outlets can be problematic.

usb may not deliver enough current/wattage for usb odd
bricks are always a much better option

Not when the outlets are not up to code.

[Sigma957]

eBay sells a version by LG that can play 4k discs as long as you do not update the firmware. The firmware update locks out 4k disc playback on the drive. Or you can get the Blu-ray drive from Japan which is a true 4k disc drive with Blu-ray (non-4k) rewrite capability. I think it's by Toshiba, haven't been on eBay in awhile so I could be wrong.

[_I_]

the drive has no idea if the disc is 4k or not
there is no difference in how the data is read from the disc
the drive does no decoding or anything

its the player software that decodes and plays the media, 4k or 1080p

[Sigma957]

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the drive has no idea if the disc is 4k or not
there is no difference in how the data is read from the disc
the drive does no decoding or anything

its the player software that decodes and plays the media, 4k or 1080p

The firmware of that particular LG drive does.