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Home Video (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, 4k)

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On Reddit we have r/dvdcollection, r/boutiquebluray, r/4kbluray, r/steelbook, r/vhs, etc but let's start simply with a community to cover all the forms of home video collecting.

So, do you feel nostalgic for a format? Are you looking forward to a release? Heard any exciting news? Want to show us your shelves? Then post away.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (16 children)

I hope we're not paying more for a player that does less…

You are and will be, as the cost of hardware in "smart" devices (and the reason that non-smart TV's no longer exist) are subsidized with on-device advertising and massive data collection/reselling.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Yeah. Part of me wonders how much of a premium that making a TV dumb would be and if there is a large enough market that would buy into it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

They already exist. You just have to look for "signage displays" or "commercial TV's", they come with all the smart crap stripped out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Iiyama screens are some of the best commercial screens. Unfortunately commercial screens usually lack the plug in and play features on domestic tellys, which can be a right faff

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Plug and play features like....

Plug an HDMI cable in and watch?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'd imagine they mean features like HDMI CEC, input-based picture mode memory/adjustment, support for high-quality audio (like Atmos), etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Not quite; using USB storage, which people do, remembering last input, little things like that which you take for granted on a consumer telly but isn’t easy to use on these commercial screens

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