https://www.220-electronics.com/ is having a sale. I have bought several players from them and they’ve been great

Now, I know what your thinking, are region free players piracy? Well, it depends which country you live in

25 points

I haven’t used a disc player in years. 🤷

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I have, thanks for the link!

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I bought one recently for 4k BRs. It’s awful, even though I bought one of the highest-recommended ones. They’re still slow, lose your place, and generally suck. And if there’s any dirt on the disc, you’ve got a major problem, no matter how small the smudge.

And that isn’t even counting the problems with the format, such as unskippable intros and copyright notices.

Ripped media is so, so superior that it’s absolutely ridiculous.

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Oh God I totally forgot about the copyright FBI notices… How much collective time living has been wasted watching that wretched screen???

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I stopped for a long time, but I’ve continued with the launches of things like Metalocalypse or Venture Bros. Smaller productions that I want to support but aren’t streaming in my country.

Heck, back when Metalocalypse released their first movie there was a limited edition version with a skull cup that was only available in Australia for some reason. I imported the set for my SO, and I had to rip the bluray myself :/

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Speaking of that kind of show though, you know ATHF is coming out with new episodes?

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Before finding out about Backblaze I still did file backups to disc lol. Now the only time I touch a disc is when it’s being ripped 😂

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How do you like backblaze for media storage? Do you store your media encrypted on their servers?

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Same here, but after reading those losing access to digital purchases as the rights for the properties change vendors, for those that want to truly own the thing, they can no matter where they live.

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This is why I still believe in physical media. While most of my purchases are digital nowadays, I consider them disposable basically. For movies and games I really care about and want to be able to keep, I like physical.

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5 points

Its a shame drm free digital purchases was never a thing with movies like with music.

Buy, download, bam, its yours forever.

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What’s a Region free player??

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Found the millenial :p /jk

It’s essentially a player which ignores the region locks on bluray discs.

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Found the millenial

millenial? Some of us are now in our forties. We grew up in the format wars

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the VHS vs Beta format wars, not the HD-DVD vs Blu-ray format wars for the young’ns out there.

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I think they’re saying the opposite: millennials as “boomers” so-to-speak.

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Millennial because they grew up only knowing MP3s and digital media and didn’t get to experience disc based media. :p

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9 points

TIL bluray discs have region locks

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Same. Maybe DVDs have them to, what a wild world

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What

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10 points

I just rip any disk I get, I haven’t had to think about region locks for at least 15 years.

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I had heard of this company a while back when I was looking for this exact same thing. They have been in the business for many years and their methods of cracking have been mostly reliable till now. If you need one, get it from them or through their Amazon store

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