Playing Blurays on PC Vs Bluray Player Direct. Is there a difference?

JohnProto

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I was wondering if there was a difference from playing Blurays from a PC from your graphics card to your TV Via software like PowerDVD 14 than playing them directly from a bluray player to the tv?
Ive just bought a New tv and its a Panasonic 65DX902B which is their flagship TV but I recently found out at multiregion magic there wont be a modded version of their 4k player so i can play both USA and European Blurays so I thought about just playing blurays through AnyDVD (software that enables you to play from any region) and just playing through my TV but Im wondering if the quality is lower doing it through a pc and Im just not 100% on it.
 
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I've never had a stand alone blu-ray player, so I can't say for certain, but I would expect the quality to be the same. I've only played blu-rays from my PC (I use PowerDVD) and I've not had any complaints. Just understand that Blu-Rays are still just 1080p. You'll want to look into the specs of your HDTV to see if it will attempt to upscale inputs to 4K and if a PC input is one that will succeed.

-Wolf sends
I've never had a stand alone blu-ray player, so I can't say for certain, but I would expect the quality to be the same. I've only played blu-rays from my PC (I use PowerDVD) and I've not had any complaints. Just understand that Blu-Rays are still just 1080p. You'll want to look into the specs of your HDTV to see if it will attempt to upscale inputs to 4K and if a PC input is one that will succeed.

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JohnProto

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Thats great thats what I was hoping for, my tv will upscale to 4k so will look better. The only problem with buying the player that I wanted to go with and match my tv isnt multi region and thats why I was really hoping that there would be no difference and just spend my money on a graphics card with 2.0 hdmi chips rather than a bluray player :D

 

JohnProto

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Thats great thats what I was hoping for, my tv will upscale to 4k so will look better. The only problem with buying the player that I wanted to go with and match my tv isnt multi region and thats why I was really hoping that there would be no difference and just spend my money on a graphics card with 2.0 hdmi chips rather than a bluray player :D

 

JohnProto

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I was playing them through my ps4 originaly but i was going to buy the Panasonic DMP UB900 only problem then would have been the multi region issue and it would only play european releases then whereas my pc would be able to play any bluray with anydvd program so I was hoping that the pc would be good enough and could upscale still
 

JohnProto

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Oh no really? i thought if the drive was an xl player it would be able to play ultra hd discs and read upto 128gb
 

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Unfortunately it's more than just being able to read XL disks. There's a format issue on the hardware/firmware side, I think currently there's only a couple of drives that don't straight out give you a read error at this point, and secondly there's no software out there, legal or not so legal, that will play it (that I'm aware of).
 

JohnProto

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PowerDVD 16 Pro or Ultra seems to say it works with 4k according to the site http://
 

JohnProto

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That is a real shame thanks for pointing that out. It was the ability to play 4k bluray and actual blurays that i was wanting not downloads as well. i guess its a waiting game then or buy a supported 4k standalone player.