Watch Blu-ray Discs on PC without expensive software

Rip Blu-ray movies to .mkv files is pretty easy method, converting movies into MKV files preserves original Blu-ray quality and can played with numerous free media players; eg. VLC media player.

To do this you'll need to download and install MakeMKV. Before installation, make sure you've got at least 50GB of space on hard drive to handle conversion and store the resulting file.

The program itself is straight forward. Click File → Open Disc. Select the movie you want to convert and click the MakeMKV button.

After 30 mins or so, MakeMKV will complete the conversion giving you a high-quality .mkv file that will play in VLC.

VLC media player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

MakeMKV
http://www.makemkv.com/download/