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Not a stupid question at all. Yes, these will play Blu-Ray movies. You don't have to worry about your stuff being HDCP compliant. I'm perfectly capable of playing Blu-Ray content through the player listed in the next paragraph on my ROG Swift, which mind you is DP only.
As for the software to actually play the content, one of the best player is <strong>Leawo Blu Ray Player</strong>. Which is conveniently free. Plays any Blu-Ray discs on the market (even the most heavily encrypted one. And I'll stress this even more. It. Is. Free.
If you would like to rip the video to your harddrive, then you should use a program called MakeMKV. Which will make a completely lossless copy of the media you choose to take off the Blu-Ray disc. That is including any audio codecs, etc.. It'll all be there. If you choose to convert to a slightly more space saving codec, you can always use Handbrake to convert to something like...mp4 or the like. Just a heads up, when you download MakeMKV, it'll say that it is shareware and temporary, but go to the actual <strong>MakeMKV forums</strong> where the creator is giving a key to register the beta copy for as long as the program is in beta (which has been a long time now mind you). Copy/Pasta that key to the register box in the program.
Hope this helped.
It was surprisingly difficult, but I did find a free piece of software that will play blurays (assuming you have a BD drive of course). No setup required and it supports menus and selecting different audio and subtitle tracks.
Leawo Bluray player: http://www.leawo.com/blu-ray-player/
After months of searching I found a free piece of software that plays blu-rays with full menu and multi-language/subtitle support and that didn't require any setup or manual audio syncing. It seriously felt like finding a unicorn. I forget what it was called now but it's installed on my desktop at home so I can update with the name when I get off work.
Edit: It's the Leawo Blu-ray Player. It's really free and it really works. Link here: http://www.leawo.com/blu-ray-player/
It's a huge pain in the ass. Most players don't fully support it, if at all. (A big sticking point is BD-J menu support. Most players just don't do it. This is problematic if you want to use special features on a disk(eg: Alien Anthology special/theatrical edition selection.), closed captioning, scene selection, or other interesting things, like selecting what episode of something you want to watch without just randomly guessing.
Best player I've found is Leawo Blu-Ray player, which somewhat supports menus. (It's kind of flaky, and the software seems sketchy to me, but it works, and is free.)
Don't touch PowerDVD with a 10 foot pole. It's expensive, the support sucks, and it causes BSODs when it crashes. If it works at all.
The internet suggests that there are tricky ways to make VLC play blurays, but I've never gotten it to work. I've been using Leawo Blu-ray Player and it seems to work well enough
I've had issues with VLC playing blurays, but Leawo hasn't given me problems and is also free. You can zoom the video to fit the full frame and cut out black bars.
Leawo Blu-Ray Player. Works just fine, and it is free. And generally works with encrypted blu-rays. No need to purchase PowerDVD.
Also, MakeMKV is free right now since it is in beta, and will rip any encrypted blu-rays on the market into an MKV file so you can store it on something like a NAS.
I haven’t used PowerDVD in a while so maybe it’s gotten better, but I found it bloated and broken. I use this: http://www.leawo.com/blu-ray-player/
Basic, kind of awkward interface but it just works.
Like /u/d2shanks said, you can watch them but only with the right player. Some people have reported that Leawo works because it doesn't output a DRM video signal (that's the reason why most bluray players don't work). What I tend to do is completely rip the blurays using a tool like MakeMKV and then it's just a normal video file as output which works perfectly
I'd sugget using Leawo Blu-Ray Player. It's 100% free, and has played every Blu-Ray I've given it so far.
Whilst VLC can work, it's a PITA to do so, isn't intuitive and isn't as simple as just putting in the disc.
Of course your mileage may vary.
I had the same issue when I built my computer because I didn't research it properly. I currently use Leawo to play Blu-Rays. It's very basic but it's free and gets the job done. Hope this helps! http://www.leawo.com/blu-ray-player/
I've looked below and there are a bunch of great suggestions. The only ones I haven't seen mentioned (unless I missed them) are these:
Leawo blu ray player. This is a completely free and really good blu-ray player. It's way better than PowerDVD, and it used to cost money but relatively recently went free. This means that you no longer have to worry about buying a blu-ray drive that has software - you can go for cheap no-software versions.
HWMonitor. It's been around for years, but it's still the best fan speed, voltage, and temperature monitoring utility out there.
matshita blu ray. I still haven't got VLC to work but a friend told me about this http://www.leawo.com/blu-ray-player/
I just installed it and plays everything flawlessly, however there is no menu support, you choose from the video files on the disc. It's pretty nice and free :)