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A 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
by adrian_b 8mo ago
A 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 8mo 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 8mo 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 8mo 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.