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Can a Libre Drive read HD DVDs?
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2024 11:22 pm
by BlindSniper9794
This doesn't come from nowhere. It's long been understood that Blu-Ray and HD DVD drives and media are incompatible. I just assumed it was a firmware/encryption/licensing issue but never thought much about it, but I recently happened across this
https://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9332 forum post on the Laser Disc Data Base indicating a guy was able to open an HD DVD with his Blu-Ray drive and it made me wonder if that would work with a LibreDrive?
Re: Can a Libre Drive read HD DVDs?
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2024 11:54 pm
by MartyMcNuts
BlindSniper9794 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2024 11:22 pm
This doesn't come from nowhere. It's long been understood that Blu-Ray and HD DVD drives and media are incompatible. I just assumed it was a firmware/encryption/licensing issue but never thought much about it, but I recently happened across this
https://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9332 forum post on the Laser Disc Data Base indicating a guy was able to open an HD DVD with his Blu-Ray drive and it made me wonder if that would work with a LibreDrive?
Extremely doubtful. That article make sit sound like the disc was a DVD9 and not an acutal HD-DVD disc.
Re: Can a Libre Drive read HD DVDs?
Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 1:56 am
by thegeekvariety
There are dual disc type drives for hddvd and bluray so he may have had one of those but its doubtful otherwise because from my understanding its a different laser or hddvd.