External Blu-Ray Drive

[Tieox]

Hi, looking to get an external Blu-Ray drive, any suggestions for budget option as I won't need to write onto disks, also would VLC be sufficient? or do I require other software as some reviews have mentioned online.

 

 

[Theguywhobea]

Playing Blu-ray's on PC's is kind of tricky as far as I can recall. I used to do it on VLC back in the day with some modded files I got from the internet, but it didn't work for all blu-rays. I think people use like CyberLink or something, but it's paid software, and I think it's a shit program or something.

[Tieox]

Interesting, was planning to get some of the Marvel films on BluRay and enjoy them, quite like just using VLC as my playback software.

[Daniel644]

bluray on PC is a MISERABLE and LOUD experience, it's honestly worth buying a stand alone player, or if you have the HDD space, just rip all your Blurays down to the computer using MakeMKV. their are about 3 programs that actually play them, but even on a GREAT COMPUTER (SSD, i7, Dedicated Graphics) the program still half freezes and has just generally horrible performance like taking 5 seconds to unpause and the drives are crazy loud for some reason.

[Tieox]

Sounds like a solid plan and probably cheaper too!, I use a 32inch TV as my main so no lack of ports for connectivity.  

 

 

[Streetguru]

25 minutes ago, Kierax said:

Hi, looking to get an external Blu-Ray drive, any suggestions for budget option as I won't need to write onto disks, also would VLC be sufficient? or do I require other software as some reviews have mentioned online.

 

 

An Xbox one isn't the worst thing ever for a blu ray player.

[Daniel644]

1 hour ago, Streetguru said:

An Xbox one isn't the worst thing ever for a blu ray player.

I went One S January of last year because it was at the time tied for cheapest 4k UHD Bluray player available (now they are HALF that price, but thats the cost of buying in early). did the same thing 10ish years ago when I bought my PS3 because it was the cheapest regular bluray player at the time and same with the PS2 but for DVD player, I pretty much buy consoles for there disc playback support.

[Zodiark1593]

Unless you're ripping (or one of the exceedingly few that burn blu-ray discs for some strange reason), a blu-ray drive on pc is pretty useless. I bought one when I was ripping anime blu-rays. I've burned a couple discs with what I had laying around as well (giveaway stuff to friends or car CD player to avoid cluttering up phone), though otherwise, it isn't used much at all.