What's the deal with blu-ray drives for PCs

What's the deal with blu-ray drives for PCs.
Is it too much hassle to manage/make-it-work/find a good one, to get?
Looking to buy a CD/DVD/Blu-ray Drive and PCBG has been to no aid.

I keep forgetting that I got them. Honestly I never used them... ever.. one is 4-5 years old, the other one is well over 3 now integrated in my laptop. Jebus.. what a fucking waste

I don't even fucking know how much empty disks costs user...

Licensing. Money talks nigga.

OP, are you retarded? They literally cost like $35 on Newegg and there are dozens of listings.

Yes but they say that the LG ones fail in like 3 months, but the Anus ones are like fucking $60 and fail in 9 months.
Either Newegg is full of idiots or something is going on here.

Not sure what your problem is, make regular use of my trash one and my anecdotal evidence is that they work fine, so you must be doing something wrong :^)

Good luck ever getting a bad movie to play.

Find it easier to rip the disc, then convert iso.

Is licensing actually a thing?
Someone with a bluray drive pls tell me.

Getting one Anus one from Amazon. Hope it works as good, I was just checking with Sup Forums if you guys see them as somewhat effective or actually working.

my lg one went strong for something like 5 years, then when I built a new computer, got another lg one for it too, and its being going for a year.

If you just want to play movies, don't, get a stand alone player and be done with it, bluray movies on pc are worthless.
pay 70$ for the drive 100$ for the player then 35$ for the movie only to end up pirating it because you cant fucking play the disc.
It's literally easier to rip the discs and crack them then it is to legitimately play them.

I should add I personally only use the drive for backups and playing older dvds
I dont like hdd or usb stick backups as if they fail, im out 1+tb of data in one go or are far to expensive per gb
I like discs as they fail 1 at a time, and the whole disc does not fail at once unless its physically damaged, usually able to grab most of the data off the disc sans the fucked portion, so while a hdd may fail and your out 1+tb, a disc fails you are at most out 23gb, but usually only out 50-100mb

I have an old Pioneer BDR-XD05S. The thing is fucking perfect. Nice and speedy, light, and doesn't require a wall-wart for power. Can burn Blu-ray as well as read. Works in most flavors of GNU+Linux too.

Best part is its a clamshell, like the old Walkmans. No stupid slot-loader, no big ass bulky tray.

DVD/CD drive it is then.
Blu-Ray on PC seems like ass so I'm going with the basic drives.

I ripped my bluray drive out of a broken and discarded laptop, it's in an external case, and still works after all these years.

go to a site and download it and put it on a 4tb drive with 100's of others weighing in at 8GB. Why would anyone still use bluray?

if you do any kind of backup, or are willing to rip the movies, its worth the bluray player, if not, get a stand alone

but like I said, I do backups to discs so it's worthwhile in that regard for me.

back up files or make their own rips, at least with a normal person use for it, a bluray stand alone is better then blu ray drives as far as playing goes.

I also imagine a point when blurays cost nothing or next to nothing so buying bulk for 5$ each on movies you like makes sense too.

>Getting Anus from Amazon

I'm thinking about getting into mdisk blue rays for super important things I really want to keep forever

Technically DVD decoding has to be licensed as well, VLC and other players just ignore it or use a free alternative. It's why Windows actually dropped support for DVD-Video. You can either buy software for Bluray, rip it, or use LeawoPlayer (free but has ads)

Well ive got one but i never use it. I think i purchased like 5 blurays before switching to digital

I've been using an LG drive for seven years, though only for BDs maybe twice. Great multi purpose optical drive though.

Bluray on pc is pretty much dead. Your better off backing up your porn to an external HDD.

main thing you have to look for is drives that lock the ripping speed to the lowest possible speed like mine. Sucks ass.

nerds

they're coming for our guns next

>2018
>optical discs are finally retro and considered "hard" to use by the commoners

Jesus Christ.