Now that the dust has settled, why did the LaserDisc fail?

The other version you uploaded had less artifacting on the text.

It's 2018 and I have not seen a blueray disc in my life.

I had to showoff the rest of my Schindler's List collection boi.

You must be 50 years old then.
Between 2006 and Netflix there was a lot of push and some support for it.

Ever play play ps3?

What's the point of buying blueray discs anyway? Isn't it cheaper to buy USB 3 case with external hard drive and raspberry pi for playback?

No, I plan to play Deamon Souls on PS3 emulator next summer. I'm a PC guy.

How far along are you in Steins;Gate 0?

It wasn't when BlueRay was a thing. You are judging an older technology in today's context. Don't do that.

LaserDisc however, it failed even during its own time window.

But I can store multiple movies from youtube on one hard drive. You can't rewrite bluerays, right?

It was just replaced by something better

I never played steins. I'm waiting for the emulator to be as stable as possible. I have time.

But hard drives as movie collection media is just bad. It looks bad, its slower to put on, its more expensive, it requires piracy, etc.

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It takes less space. How about that?
Also no piracy. There are more than enough free movies out there to last me for life. I don't support hollywood #meetoo

Where is Schindler's List?

enjoy your discrot

On my bed, I sleep with it.

Post pic then.

Okay, I lied, I don't own Schindler's List. Please don't call the cops on me. I have a jewish friend.

subtle trolling

Fuck you I am Jewish.

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Why do you hate Poles?
Also is this a Jow Forums thread now or can we continue with the "technology" bit?

Fuck off durrrr Jews can't browse Jow Forums. Getting this worked up over me owning Schindler's List on LaserDisc which is what the thread is about. Back to Jow Forums incel. See how retarded that sounds.

Please I believe in the Hall of Cost and I have a candle holder and my tax money go to bomb arabs, please don't call the police.

Lets talk about LaserDisc, I genuinely wanted to know why they weren't as successful as investors had hoped. The pretty much same thing worked out fine later with BlueRay as far as I can tell.

Are you sure you are strong enough to browse Jow Forums? I'm not even tge same guy. Chill the fuck out. Summer kids don't know what a laserdisk is. This thread will turn into 100% shitposting soon.

Because you couldn't record your own shit from TV on it. Nobody was retarded enough to pay for movies outside cinema back then.

Hey this guy is a good sport about it while you're being a fucken buzzkill. Also why are chink anime BlueRays so expensive?
Also thanks for being a good sport goy. Also do you own any laserdiscs?

But LD didn't really fail. It was popular in Japan for many years as a home video format, and in Eastern Europe for piracy as a non-degrading source for VHS production or local broadcast.

>its slower to put on
nigga what

how is clicking a file slower than getting the disc out of the case, putting it in the player and watching 10 minutes of unskippable trailers?

>how is clicking a file slower than getting the disc out of the case, putting it in the player and watching 10 minutes of unskippable trailers?

Time period, dog. If you are using HDDs to store your movie collection, you'd have many HDDs on your shelf, labeled based on which movies are on each, and you'd have to power down, plug them in, boot, and find the movie. This takes time and isn't convenient.

>power down, plug them in, boot, and find the movie
Or you could just buy a usb enclosure.

no recording capability, not enough people gave a shit about picture quality to offset the fact that you can record/timeshift tv with a vcr
vhs also had the ability to have whole movies on one side of one tape. sure, LD has instant-seek, instant-rewind, frame-freeze, frame-seek, higher quality video, etc, etc.. but being able to record and being able to watch a movie by pressing play and leaving it alone were just too important to pass up

Or you could stop suggesting USB as a solution to a problem that predates it. We aren't talking 2018 here.

All of the discs seen in can fit on one or two hard drives even as BD remuxes, without quality degradation. Put a few drives in a NAS and the most you have to wait is a couple seconds to for the drive to spin up from sleep.

>power down, plug them in, boot, and find the movie
Even if I was stupid and had dozens of small HDDs on a shelf, why would I need to power down to use them? Sticking a HDD into a USB dock takes as much time as sticking a disc into a player.

>USB predates blurays
nigga what

The PS3 had usb 2.0 ports, how the fuck does usb predate br?

i was already using my xbox as a media centre with ripped dvd's and downloaded xvids before bluray came out
your time period argument doesn't hold water, there were options that people did use to play digital media before 2006

i also have never personally touched or used a bluray disc/player, i got broadband in 2006, so i went straight from the above to downloading bluray rips off the internet

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you know you can put more than one movie on a hdd, right?
you could get 200-odd GB hdd's before 2006, enough for a couple hundred 700MB dvd rips

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I watched movies on my morotola A925 in the early 2000's.

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usb is from 1996, most desktops had usb ports by 2000, even the playstation 2 (not 3) had usb ports (and yes, there was ps2 homebrew to play video from usb drives)

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I have 8 external HDDs and they're connected to my PC and on all the time.

i did once, for about 2 minutes at an electronics expo before it came out

With action replay max you can play movies off a USB on the PS2.

i used SMS (simple media system)

I remember really wanting the Linux kit for PS2, but it was $200.

disc rot from the factory.

emulators suck

4U

>try to watch BD on linux
nope
>try to watch BD on windows
that will be $49.99 for the player subscription

when on the internet the most suggested way to watch BD on a computer is to rip the movie first
it kinda failed in my books

what the fuck, the PS3 has USB ports

i know, but i'm talking about the ps2

It's fucking huge

You need to get out more

So are laptops, and those were a big success. People carried laptops around more than you'd expect to carry a movie disc. Also, music vinyls were the same size. It was an accepted size.

techmoan subscriber?

LD was the dominant media in early karaoke shops until MIDI and Internet killed it.

the only time i ever saw an LD was in 2002 (i remember the date as the jackass movie came out at the same time i visited that place), it was a karaoke setup
at the time i didn't know what it was

>try to watch BD on linux
VLC worked for me, you only need to download some extra shit.

Here's your (((you)))

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Because people with more brains than money waited to see if it would catch on.

Because buying movies has never been that popular of a concept. It replaced 16mm film which was some real cinephile-only shit. Even with VHS renting movies and recording off TV was more popular than buying tapes. Actually buying movies didn't make sense until DVDs since they were so convenient. And now buying movies is dead once again, people just stream.

Blurays are far more durable and robust than DVDs, which were better quality than CDs.

>how to trigger Jow Forumstards in one image

kek

It is doing exactly same as UHD Bluray though. Purpose: Milking Videophiles

doesn't work for new BDs

Oh i see

That's literally what you get for paying for media. In return for giving them money, they restrict your use. Fuck that and fuck them, anyone who pays for content (other than seeing movies in theaters, for example) is not just a cuck but actively supporting a bunch of shitheaded ultra-wealthy thugs.

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I believe this, I didn't get a blu ray capable player until 2016. DVD was so popular it killed home media I guess.

I have one optical drive in my home and it's a usb dvd writer.

No ones talking about Jow Forums you butthurt faggot

>jewish moon runes
>"the debt"
>6 copies of Schindler's Lies
I've often wondered what it was truly like to be a jew. Now I know that it's a lot like falling asleep in history class.

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Two VHS copies, Two DVD's, 1 copy of the book, 1 laserdisc copy, and a copy of the soundtrack. As for the debt it's an entertaining movie.

I agree entirely. It's why I have never paid for a song, film, or anything I could have pirated in my life.

Funny cause im a software developer... It feels odd.

I'm considering giving you money asshole. I can get a BETTER product elsewhere for FREE. Why would I do that?.

That being said I have been to the cinema quite a lot of times and have bought a shit load of games from steam/kinguin.

>and you'd have to power down, plug them in, boot, and find the movie.

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>I have never paid for a song, film, or anything I could have pirated in my life
>well except all the games and movies I have paid for
Stupid redditspacer

>formatting your posts to be readable is reddit
Go sit on a knife you fucking retard

Yyyyup. I make videos for a living, so it's hypocritical for me too. But it doesn't change the underlying issue: if my options are pay money to get a worse product, or pay nothing and get an objectively better one, why the fuck would I ever pay?

What is a fileserver?

>see OP image
>note the irony
>person holding disc and packaging has one red eye
>laugh

Watch Techmoan.
This. It was twenty years old by the time DVD replaced it.

>>try to watch BD on linux
makemkv (proprietary, though)
if configure properly, you can just use mpv to watch any and all bds, and mpv in turns uses makemkv, but you don't need to interact with makemkv at all

>muh disk rot
stfu retard

blu-ray came around at a time where you could still rent a DVD through the mail using Netflix. I think that fact alone is enough to contextualize its existence.

Blu-ray was created with the intent to keep DVDs relevant in the face of the then-fledgling streaming services. It certainly served that purpose well- it provided objectively better quality than streaming services could provide at the time, and it did it using a format that people were familiar with, even if they had to get a new DVD player to use it.

I think DVD/Blu-ray will always have a place in the world, one way or another. For some people, it can be very satisfying to own a tangible version of a piece of media that you enjoy. The whole vinyl thing is a perfect example of that kind of sentimentality in action.

unironically cool as fuck
I'm jealous, user

holy shit my university has the same jew frat

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>Blu-ray was created with the intent to keep DVDs relevant in the face of the then-fledgling streaming services.

Uhmmm... no. Blu-ray was created because HD content can't fit on a fucking DVD9 (well it can but the 10-bit anime freaks that end up with encodes that are larger than the source material seem to believe it's possible, whatever).

lmgtfy.com/?q=nas drive

I don't usually steal movies but don't pretend it's not simple and convenient enough. The only inconvenience is when someone goes "Oh! user! Let's watch that new movie!" and it takes you twenty minutes to download because they asked at 7pm and your neighborhood is at peak usage, limiting bandwidth.

in b4 someone posts their ten gig connection or some shit not really applicable.

I would have loved D-Theater/D-VHS if I was older when it came out. My dad and I recorded everything on VHS, the idea of recording HD content on tape is pretty appealing to me. Unfortunately they fucked it up by requiring you to use Firewire to record, literally what the fuck had Firewire besides Macs and professional cameras?

>try to watch BD on linux
>nope
Lmao ok

Not enough LD porn.