And since the Pro version promised various feature improvements and bug fixes, I chose to go for it. 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.) 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.

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. 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.

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