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Tried to support the industry by buying a movie a watch a lot. Well, no more. If I need a pihole just to watch a movie I own, that's ridiculous.
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PS3 was one of the first affordable blu ray players right off the bat with internet connectivity
BD-live was a thing going way back then. BD players had network connectivity because stuff like that was a selling point.
But it seems like you’re adjusting the question to be more “do BD players REQUIRE internet connections”. No probably not.
And off track, for some people the primary function of the PS3 might have been to play movies. BD players were several thousand dollars, a ps3 was like $700-800. There was definitely chatter along the lines of it being a Sony product would be best in class for BD playback as well.
When I first started dating my partner I asked why she had a PS2 with no games. She said it was her mum’s that she just uses for dvd.
my quick search for "Blu Ray players" brought up a list. 4 of the first 5 i saw were also "streaming boxes" with wi-fi. the 5th had an Ethernet port. didn't really check forget but looks like it's pretty common now.
How else would Sony track you while you watch a legitimate BD playing on your personal, paid-for hardware, silly goose?
good question, but i dunno, sorry. my guess would be probably not, based on the smart tv i never connected to the web that works just fine... but I'm an avowed and avid pirate and don't remember the last time i paid to watch something at home :D yarrrr
Maybe sorta to update keys? But I think they will also do that if you pop in a newer disc. It's been known to cause an issue with playback of older disks, I think.
The whole process of buying media is broken.
They don't really, out of all the complaints I've heard people make about Bluray players (Disc Recognition, Region Locking) I've never heard them complain that it needed to be connected to the internet. It's an optional feature, not a requirement.
Playstations
You can take the debate bro out of Reddit but not the Reddit out of the debate bro, huh.
fucking everything connects to the internet these days dude. You fridge, you tv, hell probably even your toothbrush what the hell comment is this? "what you are driving at" is a world that no longer exists, this smart tech shit is being shoved down all our throats as we speak.
A 1080p player does not require internet connectivity but 4K/UHD discs need to phone home in order to get decryption keys on a per disc basis. There is a lot of discussion about this in the MakeMKV forums if you want to do a deeper dive.
Is that true for hardware players? I've only seen people talking about software players like Power DVD having to get keys from the Internet.
Is it really that hard to imagine a future where DRM encroaches further and further on us? Your fuckin blue ray player might not connect to the internet but it is still region locked.
Ignore them, they are a troll and aren't likely acting in good faith.
Grad is defederated here thankfully, it's possible from the thread they made on !chapotraphouse@lexbear.net that they'll defed from dbzer0 in the future, so at least here on dbzer0 it might not be an issue for much longer.
Most if not all 4k players are network enabled due to the DRM that is on the 4k medium. From my experiences, they usually need to connect to the internet to download the keys at least once before anything 4k works. DVD and BD usually work without issue though.
How goofy.
Like, I understand most people have internet at home nowadays but come on, I thought a big point of Physical Media was not needing the damn internet to work!
Are you talking about software players or 4k decks?
Mine can because it also has Netflix, Hulu, etc. built in.
Do the apps still work? The biggest issues I've found with Bluray players like that is that the Streaming Apps on them tend to become Obsolete and broken fairly quickly.
Some have stopped working, like SteamLink, but others still work. I know it's just a matter of time.
Yes.
They can, many have Ethernet ports and even Wifi in some cases but there's no practical reason to do so unless they have streaming features you want to use but most don't, and the ones that do often aren't updated so you'll find the Streaming Apps on them usually don't work anymore.
I mean it makes sense to have them network connected like to use a receiver and networked speakers.
I bought a cheap one in 2012 and it has an Ethernet port.