use Emby (or Jellyfin) instead of Plex.
I think it’s pointless here getting hung up on the merits or otherwise of 4K. You said you need a player to play a (presumably) specific blu ray disc at home.
You didn’t say if that was Blu Ray or 4K Blu Ray. You implied that it was a standard blu ray, but you linked a 4K Blu Ray player. These are as different from eachother as Blu Ray is from DVD. I’m asking because if you need to play a 4K disk, it’s important that you get a 4K drive. If you have a standard 1080p blu ray disk, though, you probably don’t want to spend a load more extra money on something you don’t need.
If you put a 1080p Blu Ray in a 4K Blu Ray drive it will be like playing a DVD in a blu ray player. It won’t actually make it 4K or HDR. It might (but probably won’t) apply a sharpening filter.
It’s not a case of “oh well I can’t see the difference, so I don’t need the 4K anyway. I’ll just put this 4K Blu Ray in a normal blu ray drive and watch it in HD”; if you try that it will not play at all.
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@Argone The WH14NS40 is the drive I picked up.
Thanks for the links, looks like there is going to be more to this than I thought (like always!)
@Zedicus I’ll look into both, thanks. Plex seems great but seems to have way more features than I plan on ever using.
@cakeisamadeupdrug My disc is a 1080p Blu-ray (Batman Beyond complete series). The only reason I was thinking about 4k was because my TV is capable of it.
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I would get a 4K player iff you intend on getting other disks to play on it in future. If not save some money and just get a bog standard 1080p player. Either way the output will only be 1080p from that disk.
The big advantage of Libredrives is direct reading, which can bypass region locks in some cases. Previously you had to rely on firmware hacks to revert the region lock fuse, but I believe Libredrive direct reading is different.
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Only worthwhile [devoted] Blu-ray player, would be them region-free builds
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Region free isn’t without hassle though, they’re specially programmed firmwares that change the boot firmware with specific remote presses because they have the boot firmware for all 3 regions in the machine. (I know LG modified ones work this way)
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