The end is near for physical media for video.
LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players
Submitted 6 months ago by TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1733902062
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MyOpinion@lemm.ee 6 months ago
ABCDE@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
cm0002@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Jellyfin and Plex: "What am i? Chopped liver‽
ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Streaming isn’t the middle ground in my opinion, 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 having access to and ability to watch whenever.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Especially since stuff you want to watch changes services all the time.
It’s like if your DVDs of the star wars trilogy got replaced by the Brady bunch and then told you to pay more for that privilege.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
what decent solutions do we have for audio and books?
Armand1@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I just bought a second PC Blu-ray writer just in case this would happen. Nice.
Need it to rip my BDs
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 6 months ago
For internal desktop drives, I have the WH16NS40. After flashing some open firmware on it, it works perfectly for playing and ripping BRs. Looks like I’ll be picking up a spare in case this one dies.
The MakeMKV forum has a lot of good tips and instructions on selecting and configuring BluRay drives.
GhostlyPixel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m surprised that usb Blu-ray drives are as expensive as they are still, low supply and mostly only niche demand I guess? Was hoping to get one to make some copies of my physical media, but spending $100ish for a usb drive hurts haha
Odelay42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What’s the make and model number? The link is funky if your AMZN location isn’t set to UK
Armand1@lemmy.world 6 months ago
BP60NB10, though that may be different by region.
Also had just as much success, including with UHD BD, with the older BP50NB40.
Odelay42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 months ago
40 seconds?
More like 10 minutes
Odelay42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
For real though
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The best bit is that Blu-ray supports “online content” so they can update the forced intros and trailers to fresh ones!
BirdObserver@lemmy.world 6 months ago
4K discs are so niche that this just isn’t really true, since they simply don’t bother to add that stuff. Almost every 4K disc I have just loads right into a bland generic menu with only a skippable logo for universal or whatever at the beginning. On top of that, they’re all region free.
Now most of these 4K discs come with a regular (often older) Blu-ray which contains the features from previous releases or whatever, and THAT’S where the bullshit you’re talking about is - lots of trailers (with it being a crapshoot whether you can skip straight to the menu, need to skip one at a time, or have to actually fast forward them), and, worst of all, defunct BD-Live stuff that in some cases you have no way to skip loading at all, even if you completely disable network connectivity in the player.
But yeah, modern 4K discs are mostly great and still absolutely way better video and audio quality than any streaming service I’ve used - the worst thing you usually get is maybe one dumb copyright notice. (LG’s 4K players were terrible anyway though making the experience bad for consumers for a different reason, but that’s for another comment).
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I prefer my 10min of unskippable download time and watching it in 4k with a proper bitrate.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 months ago
And five minutes of ads.
Psythik@lemmy.world 6 months ago
First their phones, now this? Does LG only want to be known as the company that makes great TVs and shit appliances?
eru777@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The format was made in such a way that you needed very specific specs to watch on PC. They killed the format themselves.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s the thing Sony does best.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
As much as I hate that this is happening, I think once you turn to digital media, it’s incredibly difficult to go back. The convenience of having your stuff at a click of a button is just too good.
That said, if you’re into movies specifically, i’d personally still go the route of buying a disk, and ripping it to your local storage, but that’s both expensive, and inconvenient in terms of space
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 6 months ago
I’d have no issue with digital media if there was a way to actually own it. Everything is either streaming only or ridden with DRM that can only be played within their app. Blurays, assuming you can decrypt its DRM bs, are the last bastion of media ownership left.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Storage is cheap for what you get.
A DVD movie ripped to MKV is 3-5GB.
A 12 terabyte drive is ~ $100. That’s… 2400 movies (if my math is right). My current movie collection is about 300 movies, 500GB of storage (I’ve ripped some stuff to MP4).
Having a backup of 12TB would cost perhaps $100/yr (Im paying less than that for backup of my 4TB storage).
Alternatively you can replicate your library with friends and family, pretty simple to do. Drop a mini pc with a drive in it running Kodi/Casaos/Freedombox, whatever, behind the TV at everyone’s house, for less than 20w of power you have a replicated media player.
fjordbasa@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sure a DVD is only 3-5GB but a UHD Blu-Ray is 50-100 GB
dinckelman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You’re misunderstanding. I’m not talking about drive space, i’m talking about the space the physical disk cases take up
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 6 months ago
But getting a DVD just to rip it is very inconvenient. Not only can there be scarcity issues with out-of-print disks, but also you’d either deal with the disks you never use lying around, throw them out or bother reselling, which I’d prefer not to do. I’d prefer having just hard drives of my media.
eleitl@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Commenting as a reminder to revisit.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Streaming only. Sign up now for your recurring subscription. You’ll own nothing and you’ll like it, or else.
cm0002@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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”
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
i dont have a desktop or a server that can run this stuff constantly yet. but is usenet still good for the “discussions?” i thought there were better free versions.
Lennny@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yar har, fiddle-dee-dee.