BirdObserver

@BirdObserver@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crypto bros have discovered idle games, and the results are incredibly boring⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still have two stuffed monkeys I “won” from that site, from when I was young and stupid and didn’t realize I was probably paying for them with my personal data.