[mythtv-users] Blu-Ray Drives and MythTV

[Raymond Wagner]

On 5/24/2011 10:43, Saul A Peebsen wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2011 10:27:36 -0400
> Matt Emmott<memmott at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> 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.
> Last time I read about blueray I got impression hardware choice is
> critical. Don't know if this is true any more? Anyhow, what drive did
> you get?

The reason hardware choice is critical is if you want to install a 
modified firmware to allow you to pull the AACS keys out of your discs 
manually.