Literally just started collecting blu rays again because I'm sick of the shitty selection streaming platforms have. Good thing my PS3 still runs perfect haha.
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These assholes are going to make books impossible to read next. We are going full Fahrenheit 451.
I never completely stopped collecting conventional DVDs specifically because of the Blu-Ray DRM scheme and it's need for an external decryption key. The few blu-rays I have are either from DVD+Blu-Ray bundles or because standard DVD wasn't an option.
Surely we have that permanently cracked by now?
I know there have long been workarounds but I don't know if there's ever been a "crack" per se.
Just picked up 20 TB of storage on a black Friday deal.
Doing a huge upgrade from my 2TB NAS. I'm starting my personal media archive, music, movies, shows, anime, Ebooks, games, YouTube content.
It's the only defense against the scumbag corpos. The will continue to take more content away without warning, and make what they allow us to still have, worse quality and more expensive to watch.
Storage is cheap, libraries are your friend, fight the power. ✊
Streaming only. Sign up now for your recurring subscription. You'll own nothing and you'll like it, or else.
Jellyfin (Or Plex if you have to deal with the "Spouse Factor") + Radarr and Sonarr + Usenet
Perfection, no annoying physical media to worry about, but you still get to keep the data you...uhh.."acquired"
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I genuinely believe more people would have kept uaing physical media if they made it more convenient just to pop in a movie and play it.
Everytime I put in a 4k blu Ray, there's like 40 seconds of useless loading screens, unskippabble warnings, menu animations, and other bullshit. It feels like the old days of massively overcooked multimedia "experiences" in the worst way possible.
That and DVDs were like £3 most of the time. I'd always be picking up stuff just for the hell of it. Got shelves full of them.
Blu-rays and especially 4K Blu-rays were pretty much always full price of £20. That's at least a whole month of any streaming service and sometimes two. Plus I can barely tell any difference between streaming and disc, especially on the picture quality. The audio is more noticeable, but not worth £20 a movie.
The current streaming services will slowly decline as well until they realise they need to switch to a music industry model where nearly everything is on every service. I installed Jellyfin ages ago, and the experience of just having one service to look through is so much better than dipping into half a dozen apps to see if any of them have what you want to watch.
I know what I'm after as an experience, it's up to them if they want to provide it at a reasonable price.
I ripped our physical media, and the experience is way better. I wish I could just buy and download a .mkv or .avi or whatever.
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The best bit is that Blu-ray supports “online content” so they can update the forced intros and trailers to fresh ones!
And it's a great way to make sure you get an up to date ad snuck in there.
I still like physical media, but every corner of everything just has to be jam packed with ad crap and other distractors now
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I prefer my 10min of unskippable download time and watching it in 4k with a proper bitrate.
in better formats (mkv) you can start playing before download has completed. you may need to have the last part of the time, but I'm not sure about that
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The DRM on Blu-Ray was too harsh so I skipped the format entirely. If I couldn't put a disc into my HTPC (Linux) and press "play", I wasn't interested.
We got a few, and then I ended up getting a Bluray drive and flashing libredrive on it, and now I can rip Bluray in full quality. I'm probably going to go load up on more Bluray discs because ripping works well.
I don't have an HTPC, I just stream my videos from my NAS to my TV, and I do all my ripping on Linux.
Funny that the DRM didn't even really prevent ripping the disks... A few different players were hacked to leak decryption keys and mess with the firmware to allow backing up to a PC (or piracy if that's your thing). I have all my media stored locally because I can't stand having shows being removed from streaming services.
I’ve only ever bought one single blue ray disk, and that was the final venture brothers movie, in support of Jackson & Doc
Go Team Venture!
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The end is near for physical media for video.
I wish there were more/better/good choices for streaming video. We already have decent solutions for audio, games and books/audiobooks, yet video seems to be lagging behind, hugely.
That's because there is a strong tradition of rights distribution for movies and TV being totally fucked up, and it has been since day 1 of both industries. Brought to you by the same motherfuckers who gave you Hollywood Accounting^tm^, where a movie that cost $100 million to make and raked in $500 million at the box office somehow "didn't turn a profit" and magically they don't have to pay royalties to any of their writers or actors.
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Streaming isn't the middle ground in my opinion, rather it's unrestricted downloadable files that you can then handle however. Streaming provides some convenience but no consistent access (see various shows being delisted or shuffled between services).
Companies would love if everyone forgot having home video, in the sense of owning copies of movies and shows they always have access to and ability to watch whenever.
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First their phones, now this? Does LG only want to be known as the company that makes great TVs and shit appliances?
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The arrrs are often rips of physical media, so they'll be setting sail too I guess
I'm curious what the landscape will be like in 10 years. Hard to push 8k, HDR, and all the other TV gizmos when the only source media available is 3GB 'UHD' movies from streaming services that have been stomped all over with compression.
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The format was made in such a way that you needed very specific specs to watch on PC. They killed the format themselves.
I recently bought a second PC Blu-ray writer just in case this would happen. Lucky me. I should be good for the next 10 years.
Looks like they're still available for now in the UK but at inflated prices sent from America
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B079LTC6ML
The above supports UHD and is easy to... adapt for legitimate ripping of your Blu-ray. For backup purposes of course.
I think Panasonic still make some too but I've used LG ones for years.
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