Re: [OT] DVD is Dead. Long Live DVD.

On 28/12/2024 09:11, Blueshirt wrote:

"Tech's takeover of show business has turned everything into
streaming."
 This is the landscape in which the sad state of home video
continued deteriorating in 2024. Best Buy ceased carrying DVDs
this year. Target followed suit. Redbox rented its final Liam
Neeson movie and shuttered its kiosks in July. Finally, LG
announced just last week that it would discontinue all its UHD
Blu-ray and Blu-ray players, joining Samsung and Sony in
ditching the optical drive.
 

Since it's currently impossible to playback a UHD Blu-ray on a computer with a modern CPU from either Intel and AMD, and it was never possible to play one back with an AMD CPU from the very beginning this is no surprise. The copyright enforcement imbeciles killed off UHD Blu-ray from the very beginning by requiring special instruction sets built into CPUs in order to decode them and then when Intel the only CPU maker to support these instructions removed them because they were insecure UHD Blu-rays could not be read unless you used pirating software to hack them and their keys from the disc.
Now the question is how are you supposed to play back your old discs if you can't replace your player when it eventually breaks down?
There's only one answer and that is to download the 4K files of the movies and shows you have bought from a torrent site, which is perfectly legal under UK law. Also if the copyright owners can't provide equipment that can backup discs that you own they're breaking the DMCA in the US, so sod them for making it impossible to play them back on your computer. Torrent all the movies and TV shows you want if you've already paid to watch them since you are entitled by the law to do so.

 https://www.avclub.com/death-of-dvd-death-of-streaming-physical-media
  I copied this from another newsgroup as some here might find the
article of interest.

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