LG stops making Blu-ray players
Dec. 12th, 2024 12:34 pmThe article says Samsung also exited the market, something that I had not heard. I guess I should make it a priority to buy a 4K player while they're still available! I've been thinking about it for some time, even though I do not yet have a 4K TV it's all HDMI and apparently the player will down-sample the output to match the TV.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/lg-stops-making-blu-ray-players-marking-the-end-of-an-era-limited-units-remain-while-inventory-lasts
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/lg-stops-making-blu-ray-players-marking-the-end-of-an-era-limited-units-remain-while-inventory-lasts
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Date: 2024-12-14 05:59 pm (UTC)Admittedly, I do all of my watching on a television connected to a computer, with a drive in it to read discs and software that can assist in turning them into owned media files, so I'm not helping in this regard. I also don't have any screens capable of anything greater than 1080p, so I don't need anything that's 4k, not yet, and if/when I get it, it'll probably have to come with an increase in storage space on my machines, rather than as a physical player device.
Keep circulating the tapes, and keep finding ways to break and strip out the DRM.
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Date: 2024-12-14 06:37 pm (UTC)One of the comments, either on /. or Ars, mentioned that streaming really slams audio quality because of bandwidth limitations. Yet another reason to prefer physical media.
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Date: 2024-12-14 06:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-12-15 12:14 am (UTC)As the reports of things disappearing from digital "purchases", no, we want to own physical copies.