Manufacturing of 4k blu ray drives

[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

[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

[Billycar11]

LG defiantly stopped the wh16ns60
But still makes the wh16ns40

Pioneer we will see

[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.

[Thejs1234]

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