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My suggestion is to get a UHD Libredrive capable drive. This means a drive that has a firmware that allows MakeMKV to dynamically tweak its microcode to bypass current and future protection issues. Don't mess around with anything else. I prefer 5.25" "internal" drives. Faster and more...

g0th1ckn1ght wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 17, 2025 8:26 pm

Coopervid wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 17, 2025 8:19 pm

You gotta wait until Mike comes up with a solution. No ETA. But he pomised.

No worries. I have an LG that I bought from Marty that I am using in the meantime. Cheers

Word on the street from sources I would consider reliable is that it will be Real Soon Now(tm),

Some people use glasses cleaner spray to clean the discs. My go-to is a solution I originally made for print head cleaning, but it works very well on discs as it leaves no residue. Simply one part household ammonia, one part distilled water, and two parts isopropanol or denatured ethanol (better). ...

Yeah, but they most likely will be supported in the near future. "Near" is open to interpretation. :roll: That said... Also, since Pioneer ceased manufacturing optical drives several months ago, the worlds supply is dwindling rather quickly! The slimlne XS08 and even the UD04 you can stil...

Looks like asmcom is out of the good 5.25" Pioneers. You can find some NOS Pioneers at Ali Express, but you have to be careful there because some vendors have cottoned on to certain Pioneers being quite sought. But you can generally find actual BDR-S13C-X there. You'll pay a lot though. And the...

I've started running into this too. With seemingly innocuous VPN endpoints.

Why are some VPN endpoints being blocked? Why would any be blocked? It's not like and bad actors will stop what their doing because one VPN endpoint was blocked.

Is there a shortlist of recommended external and internal drives for playing back and ripping DVD, BluRay and UHD movies onto PC? Is internal or external preferred? Is it difficult to set up these days? I would recommend a 5.25", which will mostly mean internals. My primary ripping is done on ...

A lot of the Verbatim slim-line drives available on eBay are still a Pioneer BDR-UD03 or BDR-UD04. The former can be flashed to the latter, which is usable for UHD-ripping in MakeMKV. There are still (as of right now) listings for used Verbatim slim-lines for as low at $30. It may be worth taking a ...

It's 100% ... relevant for people considering paying a lot extra for the even rarer pre-2022-firmware Pioneer drives. If it's going to be on the order of months, then people may want to buy or (stick with already purchased) post-2022 firmware drives and wait for the "fix". If it's going t...

So, like, when? No ETA. Just sometime in the future. Fair enough, but if anyone has an idea on what scale of "future" we're thinking about, it would be helpful. Days, weeks, months, years. I don't think anyone is looking for promises, but it would help with purchasing decisions for a lot ...

SamuriHL wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 15, 2025 1:16 pm

bird333 wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 15, 2025 1:11 pm

Can you explain how one does this? What software is used, etc?

Use whatever software you want

I think he meant what software do you use to cross flash it.

if a 13 model is worth the price for functionality and not just rarity. What do these more expensive models have that will actually effect my experience as a regular user versus sticking with the 12's I already purchased. Well, it's not quite as simple. The 12 you have is a 2 12, not an S 12. And t...

Well, the DNS for the site seems to have expired. I don't know who all will see this, since the expiry seems to have propagated to most of the internet now. You have to edit your hosts manually to get it to work.

I'm happy to pay the registration fee if that'll help. :p

I'd been hoping beyond hope they had a BDR-X13E-X, but no such luck.

Do you people even realize that drives can be fixed when they age? Only for the most basic issues. The most concerning part is the blue laser since it, unlike a red burn laser, has a fixed life. The laser and focusing is intrinsic into the optical pickup unit. The optical pickup unit for most (read...