Posted September 18, 2015
darthspudius: I just illegally downloaded the program that lets you play it. Why anyone would pay for that is beyond me. A complete waste of money. One of those rare moments that I ever agree to pirating.
I have a lifetime licence for DVDFab Media Player. Why? Because I appreciate what that company is doing, giving us options on how to watch DVDs and Blu-rays which is something that the bad guys in the business are trying to take away from us, the paying customers. Having said that, I also have an unpaid (as in warez) version of TotalMedia Theatre.
Since that software is still among the best software players, it's worth having I think, even though it is no longer updated or sold anywhere. Because there's no way to legally obtain a licence for it, I really wouldn't consider downloading it as piracy. Unlike in games, there's not even any value in the software itself, as it's only a tool to watch content that is located elsewhere (discs or files).
Anyway, if having functional BR menus is not necessary, then there's of course a whole range of options that can be used for watching Blu-rays.
I personally would recommend Daum PotPlayer, as it's free, works well and quite often updated. It doesn't even suffer from all kinds of weird bugs that VLC has (such as not being able to use srt subs, when playing a DVD which has a subtitle option).