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cybereality said:
Actually, some of the really early BD drives for PC couldn't handle 3D Blu-Ray. I can't remember completely, but I think they needed to be 2X speed or something like that. This was back in like 2010. Any drive you buy today will likely work no problem.
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I agree, in some ways I'm surprised that a licencing deal was never worked out with Microsoft to incorporate Bluray playback into Windows but then I guess it's just the result of how people have moved away from physical media to watch movies.
I bought into Bluray from the start and still invest in the discs, the quality is still visibly and audibly better than any on-line movie provider, but I think the difference isn't big enough for most people and the movement to on-line is just going to continue. I think Bluray is the last of the physical movie formats, I've always gone for best possible quality but I haven't been tempted by 4K Bluray at all.
I do rate DVDFab very highly though. As you say it's not cheap but I have a lot of films and TV boxsets converted to mkv and they play off my NAS to the TVs and Tablet in the house. I bought the lifetime licence so it's become very good value imho