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Manufacturing of 4k blu ray drives
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 9:36 am
by DanielXR10
Is it true that the manufacturing of external 4k blu ray readers a stopped due the lack of official motherboard support on pc?
Or in general, stopped?
I am considering purchasing an extra drive for future proof
Re: Manufacturing of 4k blu ray drives
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 6:22 am
by dcoke22
Officially playing a 4K UHD on Windows with official software was never supported with AMD CPUs, only certain Intel CPUs. The most recent few versions of Intel CPUs have not supported this either. I think Intel 10th generation CPUs were the last to support it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Guard_Extensions
Re: Manufacturing of 4k blu ray drives
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 7:02 am
by Billycar11
LG defiantly stopped the wh16ns60
But still makes the wh16ns40
Pioneer we will see
Re: Manufacturing of 4k blu ray drives
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 7:25 am
by Yethidran
unofficially, as long as you have a "Flashed Drive" even if you run it on a newer gen intel pc, with MakeMkv software and MPC-HC media Player with all codec's provided free, you can still rip and play 4K uhd movies and regular blu-rays without any intel SGX requirements.
Re: Manufacturing of 4k blu ray drives
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 5:24 pm
by Thejs1234
dcoke22 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2025 6:22 am
Officially playing a 4K UHD on Windows with official software was never supported with AMD CPUs, only certain Intel CPUs. The most recent few versions of Intel CPUs have not supported this either. I think Intel 10th generation CPUs were the last to support it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Guard_Extensions
Plus the fact that Disk Drives in general (DVD, BD...) are less popular with all of the streaming platforms available