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Blu-ray hits 20 years old, and it isn't dead yet — optical disc format was introduced to the public at CES 2006 (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social to c/hardware@lemmy.world

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Major releases still coming out, and enthusiasts collecting discs.

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[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That was before 4k streaming. One of those “you don’t know better” things.

I owned 1600 DVDs at my peak. And literally just watched one a few hours ago and the picture quality is a bit shit to be honest. Especially the subtitles look janky as fuck because they’re not text but images, pixelated images.

I’m currently slowly upgrading The Good Ones to Blu-ray and the Really Good Ones to 4k BD

But only the ones I know I want to watch in 10, 20 or 30 years. As long as I have the media and a compatible player no company can tell me I can’t watch it.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

You can download subtitles online that are text based and mux them into a DVD rip if you want them to look good. Some players like KODI can even be set to automatically download and use the subtitles.