Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.
PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 11 months agoI’ve never owned a dedicated Blu-ray player but I’ve been watching them on my Xbox for years and this got me curious so I disconnected it from the Internet and grabbed a few discs to test.
American History X, Mad Max Fury Road, and John Wick 3 with Blu-ray package release dates of 2009, 2015, and 2020, respectively. All three Blu-rays play just fine with no Internet connection. Unfortunately I don’t have anything newer to see if this is a more recent change.
phx@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Back when I actually used a Blu-Ray player, it did take an update to play certain discs.
I don’t bother with them anymore. DVD is sufficient quality and rips to files easily for low-profile additions to my library
PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Delusional. Also DVD has region locks as well.
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It really is. I have a ton of movies even lower res than DVD, like 480x272 (because way back in 2008 I wanted to be able to play them on my PSP which couldn’t handle anything bigger…) and they’re perfectly watchable. But of course I grew up on broadcast TV and VHS, it’s all uphill from there.
phx@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yeah. Literally just watched “The Terminator” - which I legally bought on DVD and ripped - on a 65" OLED TV streamed from my Plex instance and it was perfectly fine. I do watch higher-res stuff but honestly at couch-distance DVD quality is enough