Based on your original question and other replies You cannot connect an external UHD Blu-Ray player to a Mac. An external Blu-Ray player would require a HDMI 2.0 interface and firstly no Mac so far has shipped with a built-in HDMI 2.0 interface and secondly even those Mac that have shipped with a HDMI 1.4 interface only support using them for outputting to e.g. A TV and not for receiving a signal from an external device i.e. UHD Blu-Ray player.

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On some older iMacs it was possible to put the iMac in to 'Target Display Mode' and use the Kanex XD adapter to allow an external HDMI device to be displayed on the iMac screen. However this only supported 1920x1080 resolution and not 4K resolution. This adapter is also discontinued as is the iMac model it worked with. What you may have really meant to ask is - is there any external UHD Blu-Ray drive that can be used with an iMac to read UHD discs? The answer to this is 'maybe'. First you will need a SATA UHD Blu-Ray drive, these are extremely rare at the moment. I believe Pioneer make such a drive - the BDR-S11J-BK and BDR-S11J-X.

This could in theory be put in a standard USB SATA enclosure. The next issue is the fact that commercial UHD Blu-Ray discs like standard i.e.

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1920x1080 commercial Blu-Ray discs will be protected by DRM. This DRM will require that the computer meet certain security requirements which absolutely no Mac meets. Then there is the performance issue, UHD Blu-Ray discs typically use the H.265 aka HEVC codec and this requires far more processing power than the H.264 used on normal Blu-Ray discs. Since no Mac has built-in hardware support for processing H.265 it instead has to be done purely in software using the CPU of the Mac and realistically all current Macs will struggle to cope with this but lets assume it is possible. Finally there is the need for a program on the Mac that can actually play a UHD Blu-Ray movie.

There is actually even now no officially approved standard Blu-Ray player for the Mac since Macs do not meet the official security requirements for even standard Blu-Ray. There are however some unofficial standard Blu-Ray player apps although these typically do not support the Blu-Ray menu screen and certainly do not support the highest quality audio tracks.

It is not clear if all of these unofficial Mac Blu-Ray playing apps have been updated to support H.265 but the following claims to have done so. So whilst it might be possible to get one of the Pioneer UHD compatible drives and connect it via USB you are still going to face issues with DRM, performance, and maybe a lack of a suitable app to play the movie. Note: There are general video apps for the Mac that can play H.265 e.g. VLC although my comment about performance will still apply, but these do not support playing UHD Blu-Ray format files/discs.

They will play H.265 4K video files that have either come from some other source e.g. A video camera or I would assume a UHD 4K movie some how 'ripped' from a disc.

(It is in most countries illegal to rip the content from DVD, Blu-Ray and UHD Blu-Ray discs.). Nicwilson58 wrote: BZZZZZZZT Wrong, you can connect a SATA 4K bluray player/burner to the Mac just fine, and with some player software of which there are few choices it works perfectly. I suggest you re-read my post more carefully. John Lockwood wrote: First you will need a SATA UHD Blu-Ray drive, these are extremely rare at the moment. I believe Pioneer make such a drive - the BDR-S11J-BK and BDR-S11J-X.

This could in theory be put in a standard USB SATA enclosure. John Lockwood wrote: Finally there is the need for a program on the Mac that can actually play a UHD Blu-Ray movie.

There is actually even now no officially approved standard Blu-Ray player for the Mac since Macs do not meet the official security requirements for even standard Blu-Ray. There are however some unofficial standard Blu-Ray player apps although these typically do not support the Blu-Ray menu screen and certainly do not support the highest quality audio tracks. It is not clear if all of these unofficial Mac Blu-Ray playing apps have been updated to support H.265 but the following claims to have done so. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums. Apple disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site.

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I have about 2,000 DVD's in my collection. I recently purchased a WDTVLive! And really love this thing. I have found that ripping my original commercial movies to DVD5 file set works best for me all around on this box. I've already converted about 2 TB this way and it's perfect for me. I want to do the remaining (about 6 TB) in the same format.

I've been using DVDFabHD Decrypter to rip to DVD9, and then I use DVD2ONE to compress and preserve the Audio/Subtitles that I want. DVDFab (now BluFab) has discontinued the Decryption function with it's latest update. I'm still using an older version and it works for now, but I'd like to move to something else that is still supported, and produces the DVD file structure with everything in tact. I've tried a bunch of CRAP and nothing I've found works even 1/10th as good as my standard. So, can someone here recommend an application that will do the trick. There are many out there that will rip to a single file, but that's not what I want. I want the full file set.

It gives me all the options of the original DVD (I'm hearing impaired, and rely need the subs). The box also downloads all the album art and descriptions of the movies that way.

It makes it very nice for browsing, not to mention that if the original DVD gets damaged it's a one step process to re-burn the movie since the file set is right there. Suggestions solicited. I use MPEG stream clip.

Its free too! You go to fileload DVD. Then you navigate to the DVD video folder and click it, then hit open. It automatically loads the video and audio in all directories. When you export, you can export lots of different variations of formats.

Just remember, its very important. The default quality for some reason is at 50%, make sure you slide it to 100% on the export every time.

I use this program all the time in the studio if a DVD needs to be copied. ^^ Website To Download ^^. Click to expand.Not really, as I'm not a paying customer. I did the DVDFab update and it installed BluFab. Even when you go to the developers page to download DVDFab, it will download BluFab. For now I'm okay, I just used time machine to roll back the clock to an older version and it's working out so far.

I just have to update a bunch of other apps again. I'm looking into Ripit. I haven't used it yet but I've downloaded the trial. I had resigned myself to booting into Linux and running an open source app called K9Copy which works well, but I found that even it isn't supported and won't install on the newest distros. I bought DVDFab nearly 10 years ago, when I was using Windows in those days, and I have been using it ever since. Upon switching to Mac back in 2006, I downloaded the Mac version and it works just fine.

Lately, I received a newsletter from DVDFab saying that their website 'dvdfab.com' was blocked by some third party organisations in the states and as a result they switched their website to 'www.dvdfab.cn'. DVDFab HD Decrypter for Mac is still free and available from this site. I prefer to use DVDFab Decrypter because it preserves the entire file structure of the original DVD.

Doing so preserves not only the subtitles but the entire opening menu as well as all the special features. After the DVD is copied to the hard drive by the DVDFab Decrypter, I change the extension of the main folder containing the VIDEOTS sub folder to '.dvdmedia'. In other words the original folder 'MoveName' looks like 'MovieName.dvdmedia' after the renaming. Once you do that, double clicking the folder with the dvdmedia extension will open the default player (iDVD or VLC whichever is the one you designated as the default DVD player) and you will be greeted with the top menu of the DVD.

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From there you can access everything which the original DVD has. It is indistingushable from playing the original DVD in every aspect. I use a really simple setup, for both DVDs and Bluray I use MakeMkv to rip the master file Ripit is great for baking a DVD image Great for ripping the master file from both DVD and BluRay Absolutely hands down the best tool on the planet for file compression/conversion. For both BluRay and DVD I rip first using MakeMkv to a master file and Handbrake to convert to a more manageable file.

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You have presets for all major devices, AppleTV for a 720p file, but since you have the WDTV, you can simply choose 'High Profile' and it will halve the file size for you with next to no loss in quality and will play better on the WDTV. I have the WDTV as well, its a great piece of kit and outputs the full 1080p which is why I have little interest in the AppleTV as its too limiting.