Home Video (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, 4k)

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On Reddit we have r/dvdcollection, r/boutiquebluray, r/4kbluray, r/steelbook, r/vhs, etc but let's start simply with a community to cover all the forms of home video collecting.

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Hello, old friend… (Linus Tech Tips - Ripping your discs and the benefits of physical media) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Linus Tech Tips - How to rip blurays/4K discs to your own server and reencode then if you want to, the history of copy protection and the benefits of physical media. Quite interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Too bad consumer Blu-Ray is no longer in production

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As far as I know Blu-ray is still being produced Sony just stopped making base media.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/sony-stops-producing-blu-ray-and-optical-disks-for-consumer-market-business-to-business-production-to-continue-until-unprofitable

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

That sounds like consumer BRD disks not what businesses buy to produce copies of a new movie they are releasing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's just recordable Blu-rays, for the 5 people that have a Blu-ray writer. Nobody uses them, USB drives are far more convenient and can be bigger anyway.

Normal Blu-rays are not going anywhere.

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

Pressed discs are alive and well. Sony has been outsourcing Blu-ray manufacturing for years anyway, so the recent announcement changed nothing. BD-Rs are probably on life support, though.