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  • PraiseTheSoupEnglish
    101·
    9 months ago

    I’ve never owned a dedicated Blu-ray player but I’ve been watching them on my Xbox for years and this got me curious so I disconnected it from the Internet and grabbed a few discs to test.

    American History X, Mad Max Fury Road, and John Wick 3 with Blu-ray package release dates of 2009, 2015, and 2020, respectively. All three Blu-rays play just fine with no Internet connection. Unfortunately I don’t have anything newer to see if this is a more recent change.

    • phx@lemmy.caEnglish
      23·
      9 months ago

      Back when I actually used a Blu-Ray player, it did take an update to play certain discs.

      I don’t bother with them anymore. DVD is sufficient quality and rips to files easily for low-profile additions to my library

        • MalfeasantEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          It really is. I have a ton of movies even lower res than DVD, like 480x272 (because way back in 2008 I wanted to be able to play them on my PSP which couldn’t handle anything bigger…) and they’re perfectly watchable. But of course I grew up on broadcast TV and VHS, it’s all uphill from there.

          • phx@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            Yeah. Literally just watched “The Terminator” - which I legally bought on DVD and ripped - on a 65" OLED TV streamed from my Plex instance and it was perfectly fine. I do watch higher-res stuff but honestly at couch-distance DVD quality is enough.

            As for region locks, my ripping software and drive couldn’t give two shits about that.

            • MalfeasantEnglish
              1·
              9 months ago

              Yes, exactly. I’ll notice the quality difference if I’m standing 3 feet away from the screen, but that’s not how I watch movies.