What is the crowd's opinion of AnyDVD?

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It's possible that the disc copy protection may not have been cracked yet. You can report this to the author and wait for an update.

As for an alternative, there are two that is good at bypass Blu-ray copy protections:

DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper or AnyDVD HD.

However, please note AnyDVD HD is Windows only and it just removes the copy protections and saves your Blu-ray in ISO or Blu-ray folder. You will still need to rip the unprotected ISO or folder to what you need. For DVDFab, you can rip a Blu-ray directly to what you prefer. Also, it is for PC and Mac.

Get AnyDVD HD and never worry about regions or copy protection again. AnyDVD rips the region and copy protection codes off on the fly so that every other program is presented with region and DRM free data. This allows you to not only play the disks with any player you wish but also to make backup copies of them.

I’ve found Pioneer optical drives to be extremely reliable over the years. I actually have an internal Pioneer BD-RW drive that I’ve been using for about 10 years across three different PCs (currently in an external enclosure) that still works like new.

My dad has one of their external drives—I think the BDR-XD07B—which is just over $100 and which he’s been very satisfied with. For around $20 more the XD07UHD will also support 4K UHD discs if that’s your jam.

Then you can buy AnyDVD HD which can unlock DVDs and BDs from any region.

In fact, VLC Player on its own can usually play DVDs from any region, though not so much Blu-ray.

AnyDVD HD? DVDFab Passkey for Blu-Ray? (Although both are paid, DVDFab Passkey Lite may be able to decrypt older discs for free.)

You can thank copy protection for bad bluray support. Get AnyDVD HD and you wont have to worry about copy protection again. It strips copy protection transparently on the fly so that any player/program you use sees the disk as if it had no copy protection at all.

Also correct me if I am wrong, but I think the combo of PowerDVD and AnyDVD, 4k Blu Ray discs should work.

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Are you then ripping that region free copy to a disk? The way you worded made it seem like you're still trying to use the original disk after the DVDFab process. If you ripped it to a disk afterwards it sounds like whatever program you used did it in a way your consoles don't like.

And I agree with the others here, AnyDVD HD is the shit and will do exactly what you're trying to do.