Hello everyone, long time lurker but finally registered.
Sorry if there is already a thread for this sort of stuff, but I couldn't really find anything.
Anyways, I am moving from Windows to a MBPr, so I need an external blu-ray drive. My plan is to create rips of my Blu-rays as I am currently doing now, and watch with VLC so software is not the issue. The issue I have is region locking on the drive at a hardware level. As far as I am aware, MakeMKV should be able to get through region locking, however, I do know that there a few brands that region lock at a hardware level. I have experienced this first hand with my Windows laptop, which had a Matshita drive, which from my research, I am led to believe are notoriously difficult with hardware region locking.
I am looking at this drive: http://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-Su ... 92123011_5
My question is has anybody had any experience with this drive, or LG regarding hardware region locking? Or can anybody recommend me a drive which will not have any issues with region locking when ripping? As I am using a Mac, I am not sure if Mac compatibility is an issue or even a thing?
As a side note, I am aware of the whole OSX issue with DTS-HD and TrueHD codecs. I know that if I can get the .dll file that MakeMKV uses as an algorithm, any movies with these codecs can be converted to FLAC. Basically I just want to know, if it really is that simple? Or am I missing something along the way?
Sorry for the long post, I am just looking for a bit of guidance. Thank you so much in advance.
BD Drive Query
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Re: BD Drive Query
Just to note, hardware region lock is a DVD feature. For blu-ray any drive will bypass region lock. You still can get a blu-ray drive that will enforce hardware region lock, but only for DVD discs.
Re: BD Drive Query
This I was unaware of. Thank you. That's really great news. About 80% of the region locked stuff I'm looking at is Blu-rays so that helps out big time.mike admin wrote:Just to note, hardware region lock is a DVD feature. For blu-ray any drive will bypass region lock. You still can get a blu-ray drive that will enforce hardware region lock, but only for DVD discs.