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As Pana says : Are you able to browse the contents of the disc? The rest is just a stream of 0s and 1s regardless of format. Nothing magic about UHD. The hangup is the ability of the pc video player software to decrypt it. The drive has nothing to do with that.
I bought my LG drive to be able to BURN UHD discs and the Samsung reads my 4K disk files ok.
LG supposedly makes the Pana drive, I remember reading on AVS Forum.
But patience, we will know in a few weeks for sure.
BDXL Tri-layers or Quad-layer disc is not equal to UHDBD movie disc.
Commercial UHDBD movie disc has its own encryption.
And, "The hangup is the ability of the pc video player software to decrypt it", this is not correct, or only partially correct.
Why UHDBD needs Intel SGX? Why UHDBD needs UHDBD certified drive?
They all matters the content encryption and decryption.
Let's clarify a UHDBD certified drive should have what capabilities.
They have to be compatible with commercial UHD-BD movie disc spec to build a secured path to decrypt/transmit those protected video data from the disc while a software player requests to do it.
I have no idea if there is a homemade UHDBD video disc already existing on the consumer market.
What I know is that those produced homemade disc has big chance that is just a regular Blu-ray video BDXL disc or a data disc that stores 4K video files.
UHDBD applied BD-ROM Profile 6.0
NO consumer disc drives currently can burn a protected UHDBD BD-ROM, or a UHDBD movie disc, but just BDXL-QL or BDXL-TL BD video disc
BD-ROM cannot produce by a disc writer, it is produced at factory in mass production.
I studied those info on the Internet for such a long time before pdvd 17 rolled out.
All in all, we do need to purchase/upgrade new hardware to meet UHDBD playback requirement but not just a "CyberLink PowerDVD" requirement if we want to do the playback using Windows PC.
Whatever, as a software player, currently only pdvd has UHD-BD playback compatibility. It is not well acceptable, but it is a fact.
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