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LG stops making Blu-ray players, marking the end of an era — limited units remain while inventory lasts (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Digital streaming is displacing the last remnants of physical media.

In a disappointing turn of events, FlatpanelsHD reports that LG has ended production of its Blu-ray player series, which includes the UBK80 and UBK90 models. With limited stock available, prospective buyers should act quickly to secure the last remaining units before they are sold out.

After Samsung and Sony's departure from physical media, LG was one of the last major manufacturers of Blu-ray players

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Streaming will never be a satisfying model for me - I need ownership and lack of DRM.

That said, I don't see much of a point in DVD or Blu-Ray either, hard drives are smaller than one DVD's case while fitting orders of magnitude more.

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 3 days ago

One of the points of DVD and Blu-ray is the additional material. I don't see a lot of streaming movies with commentary tracks and the like and sometimes commentary tracks are as good as the movies themselves.

The DVD commentary track for Spinal Tap is done by Spinal Tap as if they were re-watching the documentary about their lives, complaining about how everything was distorted by Marty DiBergi, and spending a lot of time debating whether or not virtually everyone you see in the movie is dead now.

The DVD commentary track for Cannibal: The Musical was recorded while they were getting drunk. Matt Stone accidentally turns off the recorder at one point and they don't realize it for a while.

The DVD commentary track for UHF is virtually indescribable, but involves Weird Al knowing the exact address of every location where they filmed (in Tulsa) and cold-calling a very confused Victoria Jackson to interview her about the movie.

Additionally, the DVD for The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension treats the movie like it was a docudrama and talks about the "facts" behind the film in all different sorts of ways.

There are lots of others that are just interesting, but those four alone make the extra things on DVDs worth it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Problem with streaming is you're effectively renting.

If the source of the stream wants to change their terms, there's nothing you can do aside from jump ship to the next business maximizing profit.

Unless you're smart enough to use free streaming services, that is ;)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Been waiting for over ten years now for hdd prices to go down significantly to replace my broken 4 TB drive. Now I don't have any money or energy to rip the rest of my DVD collection.