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Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by nebula8804 on Friday January 14, 2022 @06:22AM (#29933126)
Anyone reading this, I'd recommend the Pioneer Drive if you can swing it. It does not support UHD decryption (yet) but the reliability is so much better than the LG drives and the other drives (which I think are just rebadged LG). I got a LG drive manufactured in June 2021 and by September it was dead. Got a second drive from a different vendor (mfg July 2021) and it also started to falter. (returned it while I still could). There are tons of complaints on the makemkv forums but it is still a popular drive for the price(if you wanna risk it).
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Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by knaik94 on Friday January 14, 2022 @04:09PM (#29940469)
My flashed LG drive, the slim laptop case size one, had been working fine for me. I sometimes don't feel like streaming or want storage space temporarily and playback using VLC. Mine is an older manufacturing date though.
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Re:Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel ... by nebula8804 on Friday January 14, 2022 @08:34PM (#29942734)
Agreed. I also got the Laptop drive and the Laptop one works better than the desktop ones and supports 4K UHD, however it is slow and the Pioneer is even more reliable (again does not support 4K yet)
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