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#Macgo blu ray player doesnt work pro

I wish that Mac Blu-ray Player Pro would remember when I've already watched a disc and skip the first-play warnings and disclaimers and instead go straight to the top menu. (The UI is so simple, extensive documentation may not be needed, but I'd like some explanation of the many audio options.) The English on Macgo's web site is appalling. (I did once encounter a glitch with a special feature submenu that wouldn't disappear, but I couldn't reproduce the glitch.) The user interface in this Pro version is elegantly simple, a considerable improvement over the UI of the standard version of Mac Blu-ray Player.ĭocumentation is lacking for the Pro version. While I can't report on how well the extensive support for pass-through digital audio works, I can say that the Dolby Atmos audio tracks sound fabulous over my Sennheiser headphones.īlu-ray menus work very well, with special features and multiple TV episodes per disc all easily accessible. The picture quality is superb on the built-in display of my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015). I just finished watching all six seasons of Game of Thrones on Blu-ray Disc (the sixth season of which was released just two months ago) via Mac Blu-ray Player Pro 3, with almost no problems. The menus required keys for navigation, but i suspect navigation by mouse may not be a capability shared by all Blu-rays. But just last month I used version 3.1.9 to watch Firefly (the complete series) and Serenity on Blu-ray, and everything looked and sounded magnificent and functioned well. Macgo Blu-ray Player Pro has also been updated 17 times since then. Since then, I’ve bought only a very few more Blu-rays, so it’s not like I’ve conducted extensive or thorough testing yet. And the freezes were a thing of the past. I tried this one with Possession.Īnd hallelujah! The menus were now navigable by mouse. And since the Pro version promised various feature improvements and bug fixes, I chose to go for it.

#Macgo blu ray player doesnt work upgrade

Some time not long after that, the Macgo folks offered me an inexpensive upgrade path to their Pro version for being a recent customer. (Possession turned out to be a more-than-worthwhile purchase, btw.)

#Macgo blu ray player doesnt work movie

MakeMKV, however, successfully ripped the movie onto a spare hard drive, and I was able to watch it from there using VLC without incident.

I worried about the possibility that this could be the result of a damaged disc. It was reproducible, the lockups always occurring at exactly the same points. (More accurately, the option was plainly there in the menus it just didn’t work.) The second, and much more serious, flaw: the movie froze in two scenes. The first flaw: I couldn’t find a way to turn off the English subtitles, even though I was listening to the original English mono soundtrack. The film looked positively gorgeous, but there were a couple of flaws. It was Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981), and Mondo Vision had just released it on Blu-ray. I decided to spring for a movie that I’d been intrigued by for years but which I’d never acquired because I’d never managed to find a DVD edition that (1) I could be confident was uncut and (2) didn’t cost an arm and a leg. The menus weren’t usable by mouse (not a deal breaker, since the arrow keys and return key worked just fine for menu navigation), and there was that “unregistered version” warning plastered over the screen but it worked well enough as a proof of concept that I bought and registered the application. I started with version 2.16.10, using Hellsing Ultimate Volumes IX-X as my guinea pig.

#Macgo blu ray player doesnt work 1080p

This piqued my curiosity, and since my mini is connected to an external optical disc burner that can handle Blu-rays as well as DVDs (I never bought it for Blu-rays I was just trying to future-proof myself a bit) and I have a 1080p display, I looked into Blu-ray player applications and decided to give Macgo Blu-ray Player a shot. DVDs, digital media files of various types, and (more recently) streaming have been enough for me.Ī few of my more recent DVD purchases, however, have come in the form of dual DVD/Blu-ray editions.

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Despite the fact that my Mac mini (not to mention a series of Mac models in the years preceding that) is my primary entertainment device, I’m a johnny-come-lately when it comes to Blu-rays.