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

On 28/12/2024 19:42, Blueshirt wrote:

The True Doctor wrote:
 

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.

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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.
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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?
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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.

 I have my own back-ups of my favourite films for that very
reason.
 

The BBC should be obliged to replace all of the Doctor Who VHS tapes which I bought with the latest Blu-rays.

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.

 I don't torrent but there is a reason that I pay for my Usenet
service... and believe it or not, it's not just so that I can
access rec.arts.drwho and rec.sport.soccer!

Binaries!
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