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From: The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM>
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Subject: Re: [OT] DVD is Dead. Long Live DVD.
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:01:12 +0000
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On 28/12/2024 09:11, Blueshirt wrote:
> "Tech's takeover of show business has turned everything into
> streaming."
> 
> This is the landscape in which the sad state of home video
> continued deteriorating in 2024. Best Buy ceased carrying DVDs
> this year. Target followed suit. Redbox rented its final Liam
> Neeson movie and shuttered its kiosks in July. Finally, LG
> announced just last week that it would discontinue all its UHD
> Blu-ray and Blu-ray players, joining Samsung and Sony in
> ditching the optical drive.
> 

Since it's currently impossible to playback a UHD Blu-ray on a computer 
with a modern CPU from either Intel and AMD, and it was never possible 
to play one back with an AMD CPU from the very beginning this is no 
surprise. The copyright enforcement imbeciles killed off UHD Blu-ray 
from the very beginning by requiring special instruction sets built into 
CPUs in order to decode them and then when Intel the only CPU maker to 
support these instructions removed them because they were insecure UHD 
Blu-rays could not be read unless you used pirating software to hack 
them and their keys from the disc.

Now the question is how are you supposed to play back your old discs if 
you can't replace your player when it eventually breaks down?

There's only one answer and that is to download the 4K files of the 
movies and shows you have bought from a torrent site, which is perfectly 
legal under UK law. Also if the copyright owners can't provide equipment 
that can backup discs that you own they're breaking the DMCA in the US, 
so sod them for making it impossible to play them back on your computer. 
Torrent all the movies and TV shows you want if you've already paid to 
watch them since you are entitled by the law to do so.

> 
> https://www.avclub.com/death-of-dvd-death-of-streaming-physical-media
> 
> 
> I copied this from another newsgroup as some here might find the
> article of interest.


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