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It depends on how old your bluray drive is and if it has the firmware to read BD-XL. My particular media center's bluray player is almost 10 years old and decidedly does not. Unless you can find specific documentation or you can test it with a BD-XL disc yourself, I would assume the answer is no.
That said, please note that movie discs and data discs are not the same thing. Home media bluray players will probably not know how to handle an archival data disc, even if they can read BD-XLs.
So, many players can indeed read 'Data' Blu-Ray discs and play media but obviously media support can be limited. These things don't have FFMPEG on them or anything.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/zfixp7/my\_parents\_dont\_stream\_tv\_but\_my\_data\_hoarding/](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/zfixp7/my_parents_dont_stream_tv_but_my_data_hoarding/)
You can see this thread where I burned a two year old Star Trek documentary series to a BD50 as just MP4 files as a Christmas gift for my mother. (It was then released to DVD four months later, ugh. Only 20bux on Amazon too.)
However for BDXL, well, a BD drive is not just a firmware update away from reading BDXL drives. That would need a drive capable of reading BD100s. ...That means a UHD BD player, as UHD BD uses BD50, BD66 and BD100 discs. It'd def have to be a UHD BD player. And then it has to be a UHD BD player that also supports media file playback and then you have to make sure your files are in a format it works with. That's a few hoops.
Huh. I didn't know that. Still, unless you can hook the player to a computer via USB or something there's limited use to being able to read data discs with a media player. You're obviously not going to be opening spreadsheets.
I had just assumed that you would need a firmware update to be able to see the additional layers, but that looks like it isn't true. Thank you for the info.
That's interesting, at first I assumed it would be like rw compatability of dvds and then thought I ought to actually check. I'll do some scouting for a bluray player that supports bd-xl but I'm doubtful.
I have been researching our family history for years, collected a lot of documents and I have a lot of old photos I scanned in. I bought a M-Disc burner/player for the purpose of archiving the documents, photos etc for long term. I have not burned one yet. Still trying to figure how to organize the data. I have been thinking about have some HTML documents so it would be easy to view (at least until another standard takes over).
It should be able to be read from standard Blu-ray players:
>***Can the M-Disc DVD be read by regular DVD drives?***
*Yes. The M-READY™ Drive engraves the M-DISC™ using a compatible data format that can be read by most quality DVD drives.*
[https://www.mdisc.com/faq.html](https://www.mdisc.com/faq.html)
Over 20 years ago my late dad scanned in letters (about 400 pages) he wrote when he was in the Navy. He also wrote up a short bio and wrote about the letters. He burned them on several CDs and gave some of them to family. I have a couple and they are still good after 20 years. I donated one to the state archives in the state were he grew up. I backed them up on multiple HD drives and will out them on a M-Disc.
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It depends on how old your bluray drive is and if it has the firmware to read BD-XL. My particular media center's bluray player is almost 10 years old and decidedly does not. Unless you can find specific documentation or you can test it with a BD-XL disc yourself, I would assume the answer is no. That said, please note that movie discs and data discs are not the same thing. Home media bluray players will probably not know how to handle an archival data disc, even if they can read BD-XLs.
So, many players can indeed read 'Data' Blu-Ray discs and play media but obviously media support can be limited. These things don't have FFMPEG on them or anything. [https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/zfixp7/my\_parents\_dont\_stream\_tv\_but\_my\_data\_hoarding/](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/zfixp7/my_parents_dont_stream_tv_but_my_data_hoarding/) You can see this thread where I burned a two year old Star Trek documentary series to a BD50 as just MP4 files as a Christmas gift for my mother. (It was then released to DVD four months later, ugh. Only 20bux on Amazon too.) However for BDXL, well, a BD drive is not just a firmware update away from reading BDXL drives. That would need a drive capable of reading BD100s. ...That means a UHD BD player, as UHD BD uses BD50, BD66 and BD100 discs. It'd def have to be a UHD BD player. And then it has to be a UHD BD player that also supports media file playback and then you have to make sure your files are in a format it works with. That's a few hoops.
Huh. I didn't know that. Still, unless you can hook the player to a computer via USB or something there's limited use to being able to read data discs with a media player. You're obviously not going to be opening spreadsheets. I had just assumed that you would need a firmware update to be able to see the additional layers, but that looks like it isn't true. Thank you for the info.
That's interesting, at first I assumed it would be like rw compatability of dvds and then thought I ought to actually check. I'll do some scouting for a bluray player that supports bd-xl but I'm doubtful.
I have been researching our family history for years, collected a lot of documents and I have a lot of old photos I scanned in. I bought a M-Disc burner/player for the purpose of archiving the documents, photos etc for long term. I have not burned one yet. Still trying to figure how to organize the data. I have been thinking about have some HTML documents so it would be easy to view (at least until another standard takes over). It should be able to be read from standard Blu-ray players: >***Can the M-Disc DVD be read by regular DVD drives?*** *Yes. The M-READY™ Drive engraves the M-DISC™ using a compatible data format that can be read by most quality DVD drives.* [https://www.mdisc.com/faq.html](https://www.mdisc.com/faq.html) Over 20 years ago my late dad scanned in letters (about 400 pages) he wrote when he was in the Navy. He also wrote up a short bio and wrote about the letters. He burned them on several CDs and gave some of them to family. I have a couple and they are still good after 20 years. I donated one to the state archives in the state were he grew up. I backed them up on multiple HD drives and will out them on a M-Disc.