LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players

Streaming only. Sign up now for your recurring subscription. You'll own nothing and you'll like it, or else.

I genuinely believe more people would have kept uaing physical media if they made it more convenient just to pop in a movie and play it.

Everytime I put in a 4k blu Ray, there's like 40 seconds of useless loading screens, unskippabble warnings, menu animations, and other bullshit. It feels like the old days of massively overcooked multimedia "experiences" in the worst way possible.

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.

The end is near for physical media for video.

First their phones, now this? Does LG only want to be known as the company that makes great TVs and shit appliances?

Literally just started collecting blu rays again because I'm sick of the shitty selection streaming platforms have. Good thing my PS3 still runs perfect haha.

The format was made in such a way that you needed very specific specs to watch on PC. They killed the format themselves.

The arrrs are often rips of physical media, so they'll be setting sail too I guess

I recently bought a second PC Blu-ray writer just in case this would happen. Lucky me. I should be good for the next 10 years.

Looks like they're still available for now in the UK but at inflated prices sent from America

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B079LTC6ML

The above supports UHD and is easy to... adapt for legitimate ripping of your Blu-ray. For backup purposes of course.

I think Panasonic still make some too but I've used LG ones for years.

im torn. as someone with a massive personal library, bluray was a non-starter. they never fleshed it out to the storage densities i would have required for my library. solid state storage has come so far now, it just makes sense.

someday i'll just be able to hand a single drive with my 100tb of content to my kids. if youre concerned about 'owning' shit. start powning it.

These assholes are going to make books impossible to read next. We are going full Fahrenheit 451.

I never completely stopped collecting conventional DVDs specifically because of the Blu-Ray DRM scheme and it's need for an external decryption key. The few blu-rays I have are either from DVD+Blu-Ray bundles or because standard DVD wasn't an option.

Just picked up 20 TB of storage on a black Friday deal.

Doing a huge upgrade from my 2TB NAS. I'm starting my personal media archive, music, movies, shows, anime, Ebooks, games, YouTube content.

It's the only defense against the scumbag corpos. The will continue to take more content away without warning, and make what they allow us to still have, worse quality and more expensive to watch.

Storage is cheap, libraries are your friend, fight the power. ✊

As much as I hate that this is happening, I think once you turn to digital media, it's incredibly difficult to go back. The convenience of having your stuff at a click of a button is just too good.

That said, if you're into movies specifically, i'd personally still go the route of buying a disk, and ripping it to your local storage, but that's both expensive, and inconvenient in terms of space

Commenting as a reminder to revisit.