For me, they’re more trouble than they’re worth. For wanting to support your favorite artists, I’m rewarded with unskippable trailers and FBI warnings, and if you want to play Blurays on PC, well… Just take a look at this. Keydb files? BD+ decryption? What happened to just putting the stupid disc in the machine and hitting play?
With pirated movies and shows, I just double-click on a file and away I go. Why would I ever want to go back to Blurays?
I used to collect Blu-rays of my favorite films - buying them after watching elsewhere. It’s nice to have an actual physical copy of a thing you like, especially it’s some kind of special edition. But I haven’t even tried to play like 90% of them, because it’s too much of a hassle.
Aside from the encryption there are also region restrictions. I have Blu-rays from all 3 regions and every blu-ray player sold locally will play only disks from its single region.
So Blu-ray format tried very hard to stop me from buying and using it and, eventually, it succeeded.
Wow, I can’t believe I forgot to mention region locking. Thanks for pointing that out. I hate that shit.
Yep, just another good thing ruined by greed. These companies’ greed is the reason why people pirate and no longer seek DVDs/Blu Ray as an alternative.
Even the “collector” value, IMO is just capitalist nonsense-- shining shit and calling it gold.
the only blu rays i ever owned were ps3 gaems, they never really catch on here as dvds cos they were expensive af, but yes, fuck them
I’m pretty sure I’ve never actually seen a physical bluray disc in person.
To me, “bluray” is a string of characters indicating that the person who ripped the file probably set their encoding bitrate an order of magnitude higher than they needed to.
(fwiw I did purchase DVDs in the 90s, and I even bought something on laserdisc once since a friend had a LD player… but why would anyone buy media on fragile spinning discs after broadband became available?)
