[mythtv-users] Blu-Ray Drives and MythTV

[Matt Emmott]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Kenneth Emerson
> <kenneth.emerson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Looking for help from those using Blu-Ray drives:
> > I have upgraded my BE with a new MB which has no IDE ports; therefore, my
> > DVD ROM/burner is no longer of any use.  I am considering replacing it
> with
> > a Blu-Ray burner but am hesitant to spend the extra dollars if I can only
> > use it for DVDs.  I know there has been a lot of activity in 0.24 and
> > pre-0.25 to support BD but my question is:
> > Will I be able to play rented Blu-Ray disks through MythTV?
> > If not, (besides backups) what benefit would I receive by spending the
> extra
> > money on a BD burner vs a DVD burner?
> > -- Ken E.
>
> the BD burner won't change playback ability (which the current status
> can be found by searching this mailinglist via gossamer-threads), all
> it will add is to allow you to burn Blu-Ray discs. If this is
> something you want then purchase it. They do have Blu-Ray drives that
> will burn DVD discs but not Blu-Ray discs, though I don't know what
> the incremental cost structure is exactly.
>
>
For players, I bought a blu-ray drive from Newegg for 40 bucks. It works
with makemkv and sort of works with mythavtest (but I haven't tried in
months) and works fine with DVDs. Personally for that price I'd go with
Blu-Ray just to feel like I'm sort of future-proofing things.
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