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LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players (www.flatpanelshd.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 days ago (6 children)

The DRM on Blu-Ray was too harsh so I skipped the format entirely. If I couldn't put a disc into my HTPC (Linux) and press "play", I wasn't interested.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

Funny that the DRM didn't even really prevent ripping the disks... A few different players were hacked to leak decryption keys and mess with the firmware to allow backing up to a PC (or piracy if that's your thing). I have all my media stored locally because I can't stand having shows being removed from streaming services.

[–] EpicMuch 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I’ve only ever bought one single blue ray disk, and that was the final venture brothers movie, in support of Jackson & Doc

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

Go Team Venture!

[–] prettybunnys 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

We also would have accepted:

Rigby tax:

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 7 points 5 days ago

We got a few, and then I ended up getting a Bluray drive and flashing libredrive on it, and now I can rip Bluray in full quality. I'm probably going to go load up on more Bluray discs because ripping works well.

I don't have an HTPC, I just stream my videos from my NAS to my TV, and I do all my ripping on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

In a different, better universe HD-DVD won.

[–] 9488fcea02a9 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lol, i kept foolishly building HTPCs with bluray drives hoping that someday i could actually play my bluray disks...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You can now, if you have the right drive (some don't even need to be libredrive flashed), a few libraries and a keylist in .config. At least with VLC, mpv, mplayer.

Yeah, it sucks. But good enough to convert the video to a run-of-the-mill format.