Comment on Best Buy to end DVD & Blu-ray disc sales

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• transmatrix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Physical media is still the best quality for those of us that care. I rip it to watch digitally, but I like having the physical backup and option to watch with minimal compression.

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  • ArtificialLink@yall.theatl.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just a reminder that anything digitally bought you don’t own. The company you bought it from. Can do whatever they want with it. But you do sure as hell ownon a Blu-ray

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    • thejml@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There is actually DRM baked into BluRay that can prevent playback under certain circumstances. BD+ is one of those.

      Some players require updates from the Internet to work with newer discs as the cryptography keys can rotate or be revoked. And then there are updates like where they can remove playback features.

      I actually had an issue where a disc wouldn’t play in any of my players and I had to crack and rip it just to watch the content I purchased. I recommend people backup their blurays because newer players or internet updated ones can revoke access to playback.

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      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There is software that can rip blurays and strip out the DRM. 4k only works with certain drives that have custom firmware available though.

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      • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Also, you may not be able to play BluRays on non-HDCP compliant TVs.
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        At this point, piracy is just easier.

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    • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just a reminder that anything digitally bought you don’t own.

      I wish people would stop saying this. There’s a middle ground for digital media people should be reminded of: DRM-free digital media. In that situation it’s much like a physical DVD/blu-ray or the like, you own a copy of it, you can back it up, share it (though the terms & conditions will often discourage this), and so on.

      This all or nothing talk of digital media only encourages people to give up and give in to restricted digital media via streaming or limited downloads/installs, both of which do better enable them to diminish your ownership.

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      • ArtificialLink@yall.theatl.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Where can I buy DRM free digital media please? Because as far as I know, there’s not many large or easily accessible companies that most people are familiar with that offer that.

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  • Telstarado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same. I love my Plex server - I rip all of my physical media audio and video to it and can watch/listen on all of my devices. Music especially is fun on Plex, as it pulls in great bio info for most of the artists, which makes organizing my decent sized music library a fun bit of zen…

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• lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Blu Ray is still the best quality you can get. Streaming services will compress the shit out of everything (even when they pretend you give you “4k”) and pirate rips are all over the place. Buying a Blu Ray (and ripping out yourself if you do please) is a great investment because you own it, and the quality is great, and the discs have been designed to last 100 years or more.

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  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    100% this. People jizz themselves over resolution and dynamic range all while having no idea that their image quality is shit due to compression destroying the bitrate of the video they are viewing.

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  • variants@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    With tools like radarr the quality is usually what you want now a days but it takes up a lot of space so you have to pick and choose what’s worth it

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    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I have no problem finding 1:1 Bluray rips but they’re 30GB-100GB files, which adds up quick if you’re starting a collection.

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    • ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So if it’s going to take up space I’ll just rip the 4k disc directly and keep the menus, extras and know that I’m not transcoding it to keep the original quality.

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• KelsonV@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve gone back to Blu-Ray for some things because I no longer trust streaming sites to keep them available.

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• six_arm_spider_man@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m old and am tech savvy. Give me a disc over streaming any day.

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• smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I am young, tech-savvy and started to use dicks recently because I finally have money to buy movies and not pirate. Honestly I don’t want to pirate movies I really like, but if they don’t want to give options, then…

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  • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You need to be tech-savvy these days to use dicks?

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    • CCatMan@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Need to find them on the apps.

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  • MadBigote@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So, Grindr basically.

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    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fixed… 😬

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• FrostyTrichs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Old people have fire sticks now.

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  • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The fuck is a fire stick?

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    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      An Android device with Amazon’s malware installed

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