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I am considering a UHD BD reader for my PC. NOT to clone 4K BDs and sell them down the market or anything like that, but rather to rip them / back them up onto a PC hard disk so I can stream them around the house, and keep the originals safely tucked away where they won't get damaged. Legally I regard this as much the same as the legal agreement reached in the 70s or 80s, where the Courts decided it was okay to make a single copy of an LP on a cassette or whatever if the intention was to preserve or conserve the original and so long as it wasn't done to sell or give copies away.
As I'm sure all of you have found, the move from CD to DVD, from DVD to regular BD, and now regular BD to UHD BD means the finer the "print" the easier it is to damage the discs, and that. as much as anything else, is my motivation.
I have been reading mixed messages about whether the current range of UHD BD readers for PCs and / or software like MakeMKV can read, decrypt and back up UHD BDs. MakeMKV themselves are offering mixed messages and I am reading on the internet (so it must be true, right?) that the drives themselves use some sort of hardware encryption / decryption that can be overwritten or updated so that even if a drive starts out capable of reading the discs, it won't be for long.
So... the bottom line question - are UHD BD readers worth bothering with at all? |
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2-12-2019 03:52:56
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