Well when I was pretending s.th. and in case I wasn't 100% certain about it, I expressed it with a quotation mark in behind, like saying afaik. And that was nerving him.
But now he writes opposite, that the afaik-part was not the issue, but just the sarcastic part to other person??
I personally find it sometimes a bit difficult with talking, because they "appear" s.th. (a little bit) macho to me, (but really not extremely).
Well don't know how to tell,
Nethertheless I know they have very very much knowledge and can explain it very good and in short.
Francly I still had no reason to buy a "good" UHD movie yet, next nice-looking movie I'll buy as UHD will be Avatar 2 (Red Bird 2), so I had no opportunity to do my homework with testing firmwares.
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But I'm still surprised, what would be wrong about those statements,
OK'll have to propose, that at least thebfat one is wrong, as you said, to they were to restore MKV-functionality for Makemkv needs.
I just let the possibility open, that Mike probably cannot restore makemkv-functionality (in all cases) for Makemkv, but when he releases such mk-firmwares (many mkv-versions are e.g. on a higher version from a stock firmware, (where were more flashing restriction where the DE_ firmware e.g. not flashable directly), there must be at least some benefit, otherwise he wouldn't release such, to at least enable downgradibility for example.
I can't reproduce what was wrong about that "conclusion".
E.g. the "DE_XX.bin" firmware are not called with an "mk" in filename, but they still work with makemkv, so didn't expect a shemata behind.
Mk-firmware means that it is a firmware coming from Mike (MKV-developer?) edited from an original stock firmware, but I doesn't mean that they always work with MakeMKV nor AnyDVD. (On some versions MakeMKV is more tolerant than AnyDVD ?)
The MK-firmwares removes more strong flashing restriction on higher stock firmware numbers after last version, that was already NOT UHD-friendly, so the patched LG and Asus flasher (or rather Mikes modified Asus flasher will allow to flash even more versions that were older and/or UHD-friendly.
There are also the DE_ XXXX firmwares, they are also from Mike, but not called MK-firmware, which (all?) or many/most are UHD-friendly which require an MK-firmware flashed before, if the original stock firmare should block flashing DE_ firmwares
What he managed with all MK firmwares, that they help after a flashing middle step, that you can crossflash other model to e.g. an UHD-friendly firmware or to lower UHD-friendly version (if they drive's hardware is compatible)
On some newer original stock firmwares (but not all), Mike managed to get UHD-friendly capability. Perhaps more older and newer versions to come, which were at stock not friendly, and Mike maybe added the feature in future.
But OK, things are anyway often more confusing to me than others. And Mike could have called those higher version without an "mk", too, if they didn't work with Makemkv.
The "DE" firmwares also work even at stock with makemkv (but they are not called mk, because the stock one already works with AnyDVD and makemkv (just for downgradibility).
And the LG 1.03 firmware from Mike has an "MK" in filename, because it works with makemkv, because the original-stock 1.03 one doesn't work with Makemkv.
OK makes more sense to me what SamurilH was saying