Comment on If buying it isn't owning it...

• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why not? They’re cheap as fuck now, and if you have a xbox one or ps4 or newer (one that still has a disc drive), you already have a fucking blu ray player.

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My phone has a VPN client, a torrent client, and a video player, but it doesn’t have a Blu-ray player.

    Do you expect me to watch movies on some sort of non-poetable screen? What is this, 1997?

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    • Persen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If I’m not mistaken, vlc supports MKV, you just have to back it up.

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Watching movies on a tiny screen seems like a step back to me.

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    • miak@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I rip my Blu-rays and upload to my Plex server. Once that’s done, I can stream the movies to my phone via the Plex app. It’s super easy.

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  • doingthestuff@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My last console was a N64. I still play those old games on occasion. My PC gaming experience isn’t equalled by consoles. I’d actually buy a Blu-ray player for my PC, it’s connected to my TV and sound system - but I hate most of the movies made today. Maybe I still will, just to preserve some old classics in my library.

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• moody@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Playstation 3, 4, and 5 sold a combined 280 million units, that’s a decent number of Blu-Ray players.

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  • doingthestuff@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I haven’t bought a console since the N64, PC gaming has just been better ever since. I still have my N64 and NES though.

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    • moody@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s not the point. You specifically may not own a Blu-Ray player, but there have been 280 million non-dedicated devices from a single company sold that play them. That’s not counting other consoles like Xbox One and Series X, computers with BD drives, and dedicated BD players.

      Seems like a far cry from your statement that nobody owns one. Even as hyperbole, it’s just false.

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• portuga@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think basically that’s it. I don’t even have a CD player to rip my own CDs

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  • doingthestuff@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do you have a tower PC? I have a stack of DVD read/write drives +/- that I need to get rid of pretty soon, I won’t have a place to store them after the next couple of months. I’d offer to ship you one, but I have to put an asterisk in there. The last time I offered to ship a guy some RAM it turned out there was a lot of international barriers and it was going to cost me about 10 times with the RAM was worth to ship it to him, with no guarantee he’d actually receive it. So… ?

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    • portuga@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have a tower pc or two, but I gotta go pick it from the attic, hose it down, and then see if the cd tray still works
      But I appreciate your reply, even if I took my time to reply Farewell, friend 🙏

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