Digital streaming is displacing the last remnants of physical media.
In a disappointing turn of events, FlatpanelsHD reports that LG has ended production of its Blu-ray player series, which includes the UBK80 and UBK90 models. With limited stock available, prospective buyers should act quickly to secure the last remaining units before they are sold out.
After Samsung and Sony’s departure from physical media, LG was one of the last major manufacturers of Blu-ray players
And in all that time I never once owned a Blu-ray device.
At the beginning I was pissed at the DRM. And by the time that was solved streaming was good enough.
Streaming will never be a satisfying model for me - I need ownership and lack of DRM.
That said, I don’t see much of a point in DVD or Blu-Ray either, hard drives are smaller than one DVD’s case while fitting orders of magnitude more.
One of the points of DVD and Blu-ray is the additional material. I don’t see a lot of streaming movies with commentary tracks and the like and sometimes commentary tracks are as good as the movies themselves.
The DVD commentary track for Spinal Tap is done by Spinal Tap as if they were re-watching the documentary about their lives, complaining about how everything was distorted by Marty DiBergi, and spending a lot of time debating whether or not virtually everyone you see in the movie is dead now.
The DVD commentary track for Cannibal: The Musical was recorded while they were getting drunk. Matt Stone accidentally turns off the recorder at one point and they don’t realize it for a while.
The DVD commentary track for UHF is virtually indescribable, but involves Weird Al knowing the exact address of every location where they filmed (in Tulsa) and cold-calling a very confused Victoria Jackson to interview her about the movie.
Additionally, the DVD for The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension treats the movie like it was a docudrama and talks about the “facts” behind the film in all different sorts of ways.
There are lots of others that are just interesting, but those four alone make the extra things on DVDs worth it.
Been waiting for over ten years now for hdd prices to go down significantly to replace my broken 4 TB drive. Now I don’t have any money or energy to rip the rest of my DVD collection.
Problem with streaming is you’re effectively renting.
If the source of the stream wants to change their terms, there’s nothing you can do aside from jump ship to the next business maximizing profit.
Unless you’re smart enough to use free streaming services, that is ;)
There’s still no streaming for 3D movies yet tho :,( i still need to rip the 3D blue rays to my PC if i want to watch them in VR… fandangonow had a quest app to stream 3D movies but it doesn’t work anymore and it was a US only option. Hopefully the apple vision pro stuff makes it happen faster globally!
Have you tried Kodi? Maybe their Android app works.
I’ll look into it. Not sure what kodi does exactly based on their website.
It’s a media center app. To organize and play videos, TV, music and photos. With a nice interface for TVs.
It has settings for 3D content. I have no idea if works in VR but maybe you’re lucky.