(3D) Blu-ray – A new era of HD quality

A new era of HD quality

Blu-ray has set the bar for quality HD content. With full 1080P resolution and lossless audio Blu-ray is the best way to view movies at home. Unfortunately new advanced technology had also brought us new anti-piracy methods from the studios. Blu-ray requires a secure HDMI/HDCP connection to play at full resolution. Blu-ray also has new disc encryption methods. These heavy handed protection techniques have proven totally ineffective for stopping piracy. I buy Blu-ray because it is the best quality and I enjoy watching movies. What I don’t like is not being able to stream the movies over my home network or play them on a non-HDCP capable computer or display.

What’s more, if you have a 3D Blu-ray Disc movie, you will be able to play it on any 3D-enabled Blu-ray Disc player regardless of brand or model. So, if you and your friend both have 3D-enabled Blu-ray Disc players, you can take your 3D Blu-ray Disc movie and play it on his/her 3D-enabled Blu-ray Disc player. Your friend just needs to have an extra pair of 3D glasses you can with his/her TV.

Of course, all 3D Blu-ray Disc players can play standard 2D Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, and music CDs.

Enter Blu-ray ripping

Fortunately I am not alone in my opinion of fair use of material that I own. There are two great software solutions that can be used to get the movies off the Blu-ray disc onto my home server or portable hard drive. The easiest solution I have found is a program called MakeMKV. MakeMKV can bypass the encryption on the disc and make a full quality backup of any of the video/audio tracks. The resultant MKV file offers a lot more flexibility when it comes to playback also. Instead of having to mount the ISO and use a software player, I can just play the file in a freeware program such as Media Player Classic Home Cinema or VLC player. Many Blu-ray discs are thirty or forty gigabytes in size, but the actual feature film may be only twenty five gigabytes. I have over a hundred MKV backups, by backing up only the movie part of the disc I have saved around 1.5TB of disc space.

Using MakeMKV to remove any copy protection and region codes, and the resulting MKV file can be further compressed with Handbreak. However, it is so redundant and cannot deal with 1080i Blu-ray properly and still MakeMKV only output MKV format.

To find an easy-to-use tool to solve these problems, Pavtube BDMagic, an alternative to MakeMKV, can deal with it fantastically. With easy workflow, it will help you to remove copy protection of Blu-ray/DVD and convert them with great quality for further burning or playback. Ripping 2D/3D Blu-ray discs can be done easily with keeping the original quality.

Advanced Techniques

There are other more advanced methods to back up Blu-ray to MKV, for example using Pavtube BDMagic to rip 3D Blu-ray into lossless MKV files. Blu-ray 3D uses a very cleaver method to save space on the disc, it is call H264 MVC encoding. The full left eye stream is stored on the disc and only the difference or delta right eye stream is stored. When a 3D Blu-ray is ripped the right image MVC delta stream is decoded producing a full copy of the right eye view that is why full quality rip actually comes out larger than the original ISO.

See also:

• Blu-ray Audio Explained
• How to get High-quality Sound Blu-ray Experience
• What you need For a Home Theater? Take at these 5 items!

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