I'd have to disagree. My LG drive can 'read' the contents of the discs just fine, there's just no way to decrypt the video files on those discs, but the discs can still be read and I can copy those files off the disc onto my hard-drive and access information from files other than the video files. It works the same as a standard commercial Blu-ray.
I agree. To AnyDVD HD, these look just like normal blu-ray discs. There is different encryption, though:
Summary for drive D: (AnyDVD HD 8.0.7.0, BDPHash.bin 16-10-28)
HL-DT-ST BD-REBE16NU50 1.00 N000800SIK96G4F9083
Drive (Hardware) Region: 0 (not set!)
Drive supports AACS version: 1
Current profile: BD-ROM
Media is a Blu-ray disc.
Total size: 26728672 sectors (52204 MBytes)
Video Blu-ray label: Salt
Media is AACS protected!
Drive supports bus encryption!
Disc wants bus encryption!
AACS MKB version 57
MKB type 48141003 is not supported!
ERROR processing Blu-ray disc!
I get exactly the same diagnostic for each of my 14 UHD discs (5 more coming in the next few days).
Please consider upgrading the priority of addressing this issue.