Blu Ray is dead

Sad day. One more step towards only being able to stream and not legally own.

If I can't legally own anything, I'll just illegally own it.

Good. Serves them right for trying to force some overly complex drm bullshit that constantly changed for no good reason other than to skim money and fuck consumers over. Now with streaming you don't have that stupid "ownership" cost and you play it without hunting for the disc.

You don't own the data on the disk anyway if you did you would be able to freely copy it.
Ownership of digital media is an illusion

It literally is. Sales trends are an entirely separate factor, but if a company making 30% of products on the market disappears, people will just buy the near identical alternative. Increased sales and less competition for Sony gives them even less reason to abandon the platform. Shit this is what Sony wanted from the beginning.

welcome 2 the future, bitch

Tell me when Sony stops making bluray players, that'll be news.

Samsung means shit when the bigger players are Sony and Pioneer.

rip clear crisp 4k bluray rips
hello compressed 1080p YIFY rips

ENJOY YOUR """"1080P""""" ITUNES RIPS

This. The consoles will always be a cheap blu-ray option.

left has more soul desu, fuck bluray
I'm going back to dvds and crts

>compressed 1080p YIFY
NOOOOOO!

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Consoles are the real reason dedicated players are dying. Who the fuck wants to pay $100+ for yet another device that does only ONE thing, and poorly at that, and can't be updated, when they could buy a PS4 or Xbox that does a shit ton of other functions too. Samsung just can't compete.

The only time I spend money on a movie is a cinema ticket. Buying home movies is a suckers game. You're constantly just buying an inferior format that will be outdated in a few years.

yet they're better than yify

>Samsung is the only company making disc players

Mmm....

it's better to do one thing and do it well instead of doing lots of stuff half-assed.

>dedicated player
>shit CPU
>shit RAM
>shit everything
>do one thing well

>play disc on bd player
>never stutters
>play disc on console
>judder
>stuter
>noisy playback

Or on PC where the drives are primarily made by Pioneer, LG, and Asus.

Samsung was pretty much ONLY making standalone bluray drives that hooked up to your TV.

Not exactly the largest market segment.

What the fuck are you on about?

The Xbox one S is one of the best UHD bluray players out there.

If you want to do A/B side to side frame comparisons, sure the Xbox UHD player is probably not as good as a standalone player. BUT, no one fucking does that in practice, and in practice the Xbox One S still outputs amazing image, HDR, 4k res, etc.

Unless you're an autist or something, it'll be more than fine. And if you ARE that autistic, you'll probably want to pony up for a higher end standalone player instead of a cheap one anyway, so you're spending a fair amount more than the Xbox.

youtu.be/F1Lt43-9lmY?t=90

fucking state of xbox shills

Come on at least give him that point. He has got a Netflix box.

here's a full 1080p screenshot I just took

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>vlc

Sony will probably very soon stop producing blu ray players as well. They used to mass produce here in Malaysia before shutting down the whole blu ray player sector. Moved it to some other SEA factory.

you want another player screenshot?

lol no, you think they'll pay for an out of house bluray player on the PS5?

Better stock up on players while you can then. That goes double for burners Cause in 50 years you'll need to be able to still read/play all those discs. DVD burners are cheap as shit now. A basic blu-ray player (non streaming shit) is only $60 - 70.

>DRM format dies
Press S to Spit on Grave

>after all those blurry, shitty VHS releases
Those were being released in parallel with proper LaserDisc releases. VHS was the equivalent of streaming back in those days. People bought VCRs to time-shift their soap operas and their sports, and the fact that they played prerecorded films was a bonus. Just like people nowadays buy smartphones/tablets for social media, and the fact that they play streams is a bonus.
People who are actually into films buy BD players just like they bought LD players back in the day. And they'll keep doing it.

To expand upon this, A few months after this video came out, Microsoft DID address the YCbCr to RGB conversion issue and the Xbox one X and one S now output YCbCr directly to the display, making it basically identical to almost any other UHD bluray player on the market.

any true techno-phile has an erection right now on seeing anything that has been remastered with love or care

F
Good thing I've secured up all my vintage kino. Network infrastructure sucks in the rural US.

I never upgraded from DVD

here's another screenshot

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>All because you fags were unwilling to pay for a Blu Ray.....
You can blame this on the greedy bastards who thought $60 was a fair price for a movie on Blu-ray.

>not vhs

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What movie costs $60?

Even UHD movies generally aren't that much.

Into the Spider verse isn't even out yet, and you can pre-order the UHD physical copy for $28 on amazon.

>not laserdisc for the best of worlds

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A dvd is 5000 - 6000 bit rate. Your typical yify release is only 2000 bitrate or lower while being 1080 res. So even though the dvd is 720 x 480 it will look way better due to image quality. Now granted you gotta be sitting way close to the screen to tell any difference most time but still.. quality loss is quality loss. The larger the display, the more that loss of quality will bite you in the ass. So in 10 years when screens are 100+ inches and cost under $500 those rips will look like shit.

take any movie, even children's cartoons from the 90s and compare their original release format quality with digitally remastered blu ray releases..not even a contest in terms of color or clarity

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which is why I download everything I can as a remux in the highest quality available.

Cartoons are for kids. Anyways, they'll probably still do it but will be released in streaming platforms. The world will never run out of manchildren.

>buying midia
Nigga, just download it from NBZ.

>Sony proprietary media format dies off
Good. Sony is a shit company.

>One more step towards only being able to stream and not legally own.

THIS BOOMER DOESN'T UNDERSTAND DRM.

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Same principle as viewing a VHS tape on a 65 HD set now. Looks like shit compared to that same material on a DVD. But view that tape on a 27 - 32 inch set and it looks decent. Why? Cause of image scaling and image quality.

What a fag.

>Sony started two projects in collaboration with Panasonic, Philips, and TDK, applying the new diodes: UDO (Ultra Density Optical), and DVR Blue (together with Pioneer).

>On February 19, 2002, the project was officially announced as Blu-ray Disc, and Blu-ray Disc Founders was founded by the nine initial members.

These nine companies were:
>Sony
>Panasonic
>Pioneer
>Philips
>Thomson
>LG Electronics
>Hitachi
>Sharp
>Samsung Electronics

No one will deny Sony had a major role, but it's not even close to THEIR technology. Not like Betamax anyway.

I guess you will be happy when all computers are tablets and you have to buy a subcription key to connect to the lan OS otherwise it's worthless, useless crap.

>laserdisc

something streaming, script kiddies will never know about

When I ripped my media collection back in 2012 I made sure the quality would be good enough for a 65 inch set. Even though then such a set was way outta my price range I wanted to be prepared. Fast forward a few years. I moved. Bigger living room, nice large "65 set to go in it. Videos play nice and smooth. I plan to stick with 65 inch cause my living room won't be growing anytime soon.

I still use my good ol WD TV Live + Serviio combo. Even though new tv has that "smart" built in why fuck up a good thing if it works?

shit's expensive as fuck

>WD TV Live+ Serviio combo

quick rundown?

Yes, thats why its dying. People use cheap streaming instead.

A $5 blu-ray in the bargain bin is expensive? A $30 collector set including all the movies in the series is expensive?

The article makes it out like samsung is the whole bluray industry. The fact that anyone who owns a current gen console has a bluray player that they use any time they play a game on a disk whether they are aware of it or not shows that the format isn't dead just yet.
Also
>Not owning Criterion Collection LaserDiscs

Serviio is a DLNA media server; Wide format support. The Pro version allows external access via web gui to your media. Can transcode formats on the fly so whatever device connected to it can render the file.

The WDTV Live is a player which also has wide format support. Can even handle ISO images and navigate them just as if they were in a dvd player. Suffice to say between them both there is nothing I can't play, unless it's some real exotic format, which ain't a problem cause all rips are based on popular codecs/containers anyway.

What's so great about Criterion Collection?

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it is, fucknugget

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Show I liked finally came out on dvd. Was only 6 discs. So instead of ripping each ep I just made an iso of each dvd. Drive space is cheap. My time ain't. Still works fine thanks to the WDTV Live.

what is makemkv?

>Blu Ray is DEAD

finally! Blue-ray and CDs are garbage. they're extremely fragile, easily scratched, can get mold or peel over time.

Literally the worst data storage media ever!
FUCK,THAT,SHIT

90% of all anime bluray remasters are so fucking halfassed slopy smeared shit its not even funny. 2mins in avisynth give me a better result then the shit they fart out. same for the fucking butchered disney remasters

excuse me? 1080p new movies are 15 bucks and 4k are 25 bucks

A big problem with bluray is that they are wasting all that space with a horrible codec.
You can easily get high quality movies on the size of a dvd if they used h264 or better instead of mpeg2.

Good! More incentive to pirate stuff, I guess.

they literally use MPEG-4

>instead of mpeg2
BD can use H.264 encoding dude.

Asking for details, not faggot faces.

They are now that pricing has responded to Netflix. Blu-ray was expensive af early on.

minimum rewuirements for a blu-ray to hit the shelves is a minimum resolution of 1080p and at
east the h264 video codec. shut the fuck up nigger

Sure but they haven't been more than $20-25 in like 7+ years.

I still have an HDDVD player laying around somewhere

yeah. just like any thing technology related

jokes on you guys i was only pretending to be smart :^)

It's that introductory period that formed public opinion of them. People who lived through it learned to ignore them and keoe buying DVDs. People who didn't are probably streaming everything anyway.

CHEEKI FUCKER. You got me, you silly boy.

sony will never give up on BD because Japan never will

This, sony made Betamax until 2016.

I wish HD-DVD had Blu-ray's specs and took off instead of Blu-ray.

why?

Also, it technically still exists in china.

CBHD is based on HD-DVD but uses different codecs and DRM.

But HD-DVD does have Blu-ray's specs, at least when it comes to the video/audio codecs and the encryption algorithm. Sure, Blu-ray has twenty more gigabytes of raw storage capacity, but those are seldom used in commercial film releases.

>no more 40gig blueray dumps
>everything will be a 4gb webdl
this is the worst timeline

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You only watch porn anyways.It's better for you.

The fuck op?
Why do i need to hold all that fucking space.

think of all the storage you'll save