Blue Ray drive for playing movies only

fricotin said:

My library has lots of Blue Ray disks and I would like to be able to watch them, I am not interested in making copies, any recommendations ?
Thanks in advance.

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Mac Blu-Ray Player is kind of iffy. I bought it and the Windows versions but haven't used them for months. Ain't nothin' like making an MKV copy of a disk you own. The MKV version will be missing the extras and menus but that is what I prefer.

Just grab a 20 bucks USB powered drive of Ebay. It will work.
Software wise: I started with MacBluRay player, but I did not like the payment scheme: some obscure Chinese business via vague payment partner.

Today I rip every disc. It is a little extra (20-30min) yet I have plenty of room to keep the discs on HD as well. Playing back in XBMC has huge benefits for me: audio remuxing on the fly, subtitle font and positioning (smaller, Helvetica and outside the picture).