
If you already have a Blu-ray drive, you can poke around the MakeMKV forums (Opens in a new window) to see if it's usable for 4K Blu-rays, or you can buy one of their recommended drives. Instead, you will want a regular Blu-ray drive that is considered "4K friendly." Due to their enhanced copy protection, 4K UHD Blu-rays can't be ripped on most 4K Blu-ray drives.

If you want to rip 4K UHD Blu-rays, however, your choices are more limited. Since most laptops don't come with disk drives anymore, you can either buy an external one (Opens in a new window) that connects over USB, or install an internal one (Opens in a new window) into your desktop-either is fine. In order to rip those movies to your PC, you'll need an optical drive that can read Blu-ray discs a DVD drive is not enough.

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