So I got a Blu Ray drive that I can hook up to my laptop. If I pop in a disc and fire up VLC it says I can't play the disc because my drive is the wrong region. I have no idea what region the drive is set to and the drive didn't come with any software to change that. But I can use a ripper to extract the raw streams and get a nice set of MKV files that play just fine at full quality without needing the discs, no problem (actually better seek perf). Why do media execs think this makes any sense?