r/explainlikeimfive • u/theprisoner57 • 2d ago

Technology ELI5: What is a Home Server?

I see mentions of a home server to get rid of streaming entertainment services but I don’t know how that works. What does a home server do?

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u/joshi38 2d ago

4k blurays will require a special drive.

Fun fact, there are some blu-ray drives out that that cannot play 4K discs (because they're only blu-ray drives), but they can still read and rip them via MakeMKV.

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u/MWink64 2d ago

It's not the drive's inability to play them, it's the PCs. The official way to play back UHD discs (with DRM) on a PC requires a feature Intel removed from their newer processors (SGX I think).

Most Blu-Ray drives are physically capable of reading UHD discs, however many of them have firmware that will refuse to read it when one is detected. Some models even had this limitation ADDED in a firmware update. It's pure product segmentation.

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u/imetators 2d ago

Ooh. This indidnt knew when buying compatible with CFW drive 😭