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Date:      Wed, 17 Aug 2016 11:49:35 -0600
From:      jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Playing Blu-Ray Discs
Message-ID:  <57B4A3AF.4060709@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160817105110.588f2bd318cee357fc1e7f7e@yahoo.es>
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On 08/17/2016 02:51 AM, Eduardo Morras via freebsd-questions wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 19:10:40 +0200
> Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> wrote:
>
>> On 2016-08-16 13:33, Jonathan Moore wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was wondering how would one play Blu-Ray discs on FreeBSD 10.3
>>> or is this only in 11.0?
>>>
>> That's not going to happen in a foreseeable future i.e never.
>>
>> HDCP is the problem, and i do not think the freebsd community has
>> cracked that yet.
> It's forbidden to publish any work about craking HDCP. All I can say it's not harder than older methods.
>
> The solution, don't buy BlueRay to break off the product market.
>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection
>>
Personally, the only good use I see for blueray is the large capacity 
backup in double layer BD-R media.
They are not worth it for me for videos because DVD's are just fine.
Some movies that are only avaialble on BD but not on DVD, you have to 
pay a higher price for.




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