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> The easiest way to play those BluRays back buy a bd player? i don't know why you would settle on a usb rw drive when you could just have a box that plugs in
by 1317 7mo ago
> The easiest way to play those BluRays back
buy a bd player? i don't know why you would settle on a usb rw drive when you could just have a box that plugs in via HDMI and works
- adrian_b 7mo agoA bd player is a temporary solution. At some point nobody will make bd players any more. Several big companies have already stopped production. Then you would have a useless BluRay collection after your own player stops working. The solution is of course to rip off the BluRay discs as soon as you buy them. Then you can have a higher-quality playback on a PC (due to much faster random access and sequential access on an SSD) and you can recopy them forever when the available storage media will change in the future, so you will not lose what you have paid for.
- 1317 7mo agoand all existing players will disappear off the face of the earth never to grace the listings of ebay again come on man people can complain about the dvd/bd scrambling restricting your freedoms and stopping you from making backups etc, and sure that's true but if you just want to sit in front of the tv and watch a film you bought, idk what more you could ask for
- orsorna 7mo agoI think the more pressing issue is the medium degrading before the playback hardware. Disks have an average lifespan of 25 years. I surmise basic bluray hardware will last much longer.
- bob1029 7mo agoThe laser diode would probably be the first thing to fail in the player, and it likely wouldn't take 25 years if it was being used regularly.
- hedora 7mo agoI'm out of HDMI ports on the TV. Anyway, I bought a bluray player, plugged it in via USB, and it works. Also, do modern bd players let you skip DVD trailers and fbi warning videos? My USB setup does...