• @[email protected]
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    491 month ago

    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]
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      211 month 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      201 month ago

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

    • ms.lane
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      91 month ago

      In a different, better universe HD-DVD won.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 month ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        1 month 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.

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      71 month 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.