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LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players
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this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2024
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The DRM on Blu-Ray was too harsh so I skipped the format entirely. If I couldn't put a disc into my HTPC (Linux) and press "play", I wasn't interested.
I’ve only ever bought one single blue ray disk, and that was the final venture brothers movie, in support of Jackson & Doc
Go Team Venture!
Funny that the DRM didn't even really prevent ripping the disks... A few different players were hacked to leak decryption keys and mess with the firmware to allow backing up to a PC (or piracy if that's your thing). I have all my media stored locally because I can't stand having shows being removed from streaming services.
Lol, i kept foolishly building HTPCs with bluray drives hoping that someday i could actually play my bluray disks...
You can now, if you have the right drive (some don't even need to be libredrive flashed), a few libraries and a keylist in .config. At least with VLC, mpv, mplayer.
Yeah, it sucks. But good enough to convert the video to a run-of-the-mill format.
In a different, better universe HD-DVD won.