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LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Except when you go to find your stuff, discover it's not there, and yearn to be able to just stuff a DVD in a player.
That's why I ripped my media onto my NAS. I have the physical media as a backup, but I don't have to actually deal with discs. No more scratched discs is amazing.
You can still get the best of both worlds with piracy. Click of a button to watch media and it'll never disappear unless you want it to (or drive failures).
Oh, absolutely! But I do feel you're trading a level of convenience for the privilege (and what a privilege!) - even something as simple as pirating one movie is already a much bigger hurdle than getting a Netflix subscription, for instance. Let alone setting up a Jellyfin server, backups, getting external connections / reverse proxying going, and so on.