A Blu-ray burner drive...with no Blu-ray playback software *facepalm*

[Tek7@Work]

I'm not suggesting that you do this, but what if you *hypothetically* ripped the bluray onto your PC?

Edit: I guess you'd still run into the encryption issue.

Edit again: Send it back and get a refund, lol.

I bought the drive from Newegg and would have to pay shipping plus a 15% (on $75, since that was the price before rebate) re-stocking fee. I needed a SATA optical drive that could burn DVDs anyway, so I might as well send in for the $35 rebate and call it a lesson learned.

At least I still have my PS3 for Blu-ray playback. I just don't plan on buying any Blu-ray discs until I have a dedicated player. (I want my PS3 to last as long as possible--forever would be ideal--so I only want to use the game's drive only for playing games.)

 

[saudi]

MakeMKV removed the encryption off the DVDs I own, would be curious to see if it would do that to Bluray.

 

[Tek7]

MakeMKV removed the encryption off the DVDs I own, would be curious to see if it would do that to Bluray.

Even if it worked, I don't want to rip every Blu-ray to a hard drive before watching it. I just want to pop in the disc and watch it (especially since I usually just rent Blu-ray discs from Redbox).

I'd like to give the VLC Blu-ray thing a try, but there's not enough time left tonight and it isn't urgent. I'm planning on keeping the drive regardless since it would cost at least half of what I paid for it (after rebate, that is) to return it and I needed a SATA DVD burner anyway.