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Disc market share for week ending in 2024-07-20: Here we have a rarity - DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K UHD's market shares at an equilibrium! (lemmy.ml)
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...sorry, I can't do the whole table charts anymore. It's too tedious to type it all out by hand. So instead, I will go back to the lists:

Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs

  1. Civil War
  2. The Boy and the Heron
  3. Dune: Part Two
  4. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
  5. Oppenheimer
  6. The Thing
  7. The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy
  8. Twister
  9. Abigail
  10. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
  11. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
  12. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
  13. Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy
  14. John Wick: Chapter 4
  15. Blade Runner: The Final Cut
  16. Dune: Part One
  17. The Goonies
  18. James Bond: The Daniel Craig 5-Film Collection
  19. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One
  20. Dune 2-Film Collection

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs

  1. The Boy and the Heron
  2. Oppenheimer
  3. Dune: Part Two
  4. The Thing
  5. Civil War
  6. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
  7. Twister
  8. Blade Runner: The Final Cut
  9. The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy
  10. James Bond: The Daniel Craig 5-Film Collection
  11. The Goonies
  12. Edge of Tomorrow
  13. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
  14. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  15. Dune: Part One
  16. The Big Lebowski
  17. Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy
  18. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
  19. The Wizard of Oz
  20. The Fugitive

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 10 Home Media Sellers (% of Blu-ray's Market Share Noted)

  1. Civil War (100%)
  2. The Boy and the Heron (100%)
  3. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (54%)
  4. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (44%)
  5. Abigail (51%)
  6. Dune: Part Two (84%)
  7. Oppenheimer (88%)
  8. Twister (64%)
  9. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (65%)
  10. The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (89%)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I buy them. The encryption is fully broken, nothing to worry about into the future unlike with Blu-Ray. I also don't own a Blu-Ray drive. Lastly, size. I am weird enough to copy the entire ISO instead of just ripping the video itself. This leaves me with original quality, but most importantly, menus. VLC can then play it for example via HTTP from a local web server. That's one lazy solution.

And nothing beats my laptop's screen at shittiness. So little contrast you don't even see the compression artifacts. So bad viewing angles you have to move around the screen to tell apart similar colors. Which is white? Which is gray? Tilt the laptop up and find out! Want to see yellow and orange? Tilt the laptop down!

[–] thisNotMyName 2 points 3 months ago

Never had problems with the encryption of a BluRay so far (A.R.M. with a suitable 4K BluRay Drive, manual transcoding via Handbrake quality vs size depending on the movie). The menus are one of the reasons why I put everything into Jellyfin. I absolutely hate how every Movie navigates differently, but all buggy, plus the annoying trailers and anti-theft blabla before you even get to the menu. Next thing DVDs and BluRays use different buttons for play, pause, back, skip etc on PS4 wtf. So now I am in a situation where I own all my stuff, but still have the convenience of Netflix.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I buy them. The encryption is fully broken, nothing to worry about into the future unlike with Blu-Ray. I also don’t own a Blu-Ray drive. Lastly, size. I am weird enough to copy the entire ISO instead of just ripping the video itself. This leaves me with original quality, but most importantly, menus. VLC can then play it for example via HTTP from a local web server. That’s one lazy solution.

I'm kind of the same way. I buy Blu-rays and own a Blu-ray drive. I don't worry about the encryption since MakeMKV can fully decrypt the disc. There's an option to back up the entire Blu-ray as a BDMV, which is similar to a DVD ISO except it's a structure of folders/files. It's possible to play the Blu-ray BDMV with all the menus and special features in VLC, although it's a real pain to set up - but once you do, it works flawlessly. (And you can always just remux the movie as an .mkv file for easier playback.)

...of course, the whole ordeal is pointless if you don't have a decent screen and speakers to enjoy it on.