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AFAIK, the time check for the expiration date is done using the local time on the PC. So you should be able to change the date of your PC to prior to Jul 31 and it should work, if you're desperate until a new key is added (or the payment system resumes).

I'd appreciate a PM as well. I just got my BDR-212v which is just in time because I was having trouble with some DVDs I bought that my BU40N wasn't reading, but the BDR-212v reads just fine. Drive Information OS device name: /dev/sr0 Manufacturer: PIONEER Product: BD-RW BDR-212V Revision: 1.02 Seria...

Just to follow up here, my above symptoms seem to have been a precursor to the end of the drive. It stopped being able to read Blu Rays at all a couple days ago. Time to replace I guess.

I'm having the same symptoms recently for my drive. Did you ever figure this out? Error 'Internal error - Input parameter is incorrect (489)' occurred while reading 'BD-RE HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH16NS60 1.02 M68IBNI1726' at offset '524288' MakeMKV no longer detects the drive opening and closing, nor does i...

I found the same thing and from what I can tell the only difference is they removed Sylvester Stallone from the opening and ending credits in the EXT version. I have no idea why they put that on the BD, but that man deserves credit for that awesome voice performance. So I'd go with the non-EXT versi...