A new stone on the road for the latest physical video format, boycotted on all sides.
if you get used to watch 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc movies on your PC, don’t upgrade to new intel processors, because they will stop working.
Intel has published some documents where you confirm that has removed the SGX extension from 11th and 12th Generation Intel Core processors, so cannot play 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs.
SGX is a hardware protection which allows both user code and operating system code to define private regions of memory, called enclaves, whose contents are protected and cannot be read or saved by any process outside the enclave itself.
In other words, SGX blocks any attempts to access 4K Blu-ray Disc video, so that it cannot be copied.
It is a mandatory requirement of the format and Without SGX support in the processor, you can’t play 4K Blu-ray discs on PC.
Cyberlink, the creator of the popular Blu-ray player for PC, PowerDVD, confirm this in your FAQ, and advises users who play 4K discs on their PC to don’t use 11th and 12th Generation Intel processors, and don’t upgrade to Windows 11.
There is no software patch for this issue as it is a hardware protection.
Intel has not explained why it has removed the SGX extension from its new processors. And according to Cyberlink, the same thing seems to be happening with Windows 11.
Apparently it doesn’t matter that physical video formats like Blu-ray survive, thus preventing collectors from continuing their hobby, not to mention that their image and sound quality is much better than streaming.
It is also, a brutal cut to the rights of consumers, who can no longer buy movies or series in their own right, only pay a permanent rental through streaming subscriptions with poorer image quality. And if you stop paying, you will have nothing. Tied up and tied up forever.
Virtually no production company, except for HBO and CBS, releases series on disc. And in movies, companies like Disney only release their Marvel titles on 4K Blu-ray, leaving out the rest of their catalog, including Star Wars, Pixar or Disney movies, which they have been edited on 4K disc in almost all of Europe, except in Spain.
Of course, you can still enjoy 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on 4K Blu-ray players for sale, Y on Xbox Series X / S consoles and on PlayStation 5.
But with some limitation: PS5 does not accept Dolby Vision, only HDR10. Here Xbox Series X wins the game, as it has recently included Dolby Vision support.