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Maybe your player is going bad. And blu-ray may be more resilient than DVD if memory serves. My experiences with streaming vary. - You need multiple services
by kalaksi 2y ago
Maybe your player is going bad. And blu-ray may be more resilient than DVD if memory serves.
My experiences with streaming vary.
- You need multiple services with the accompanying headaches.
- some content will still get yanked
- if you don't subscribe to netflix for 6 months they delete your account and you lose lists you had
- quality can be poor depending on circumstance. Even with something like chromecast 4k, netflix doesn't offer way to enforce 4k quality but seems to decidw by itself. The picture looks bad with no way to tell why.
- WalterBright 2y agoI have several players, they all behave differently wrt which DVDs make them crash. You're right that the bluray players tend to be more robust, but they still randomly crash. I just bought the complete Dynasty series, about 200 episodes (so sue me over my bad taste), and so far about 5 of the episodes won't play all the way through.
- mrguyorama 2y agoBuy a $12 DVD drive for a computer, download handbrake, and never care about any media problem ever again. I have never experienced a problem with DVD playback that wasn't obviously caused by extreme scratches. I don't even understand how a DVD player could "crash" in most cases. They are just a pipe from a DVD drive to an ASIC that hasn't had to change in 20 years. There's nothing to crash. "Bad" data either fails a checksum and skips or will give you weird microblock artifacts. Are these actual DVD players or some sort of weird computer system that software decodes DVDs?
- WalterBright 2y ago> Are these actual DVD players Do you want a photo of them? :-) Sheesh!