> The easiest way to play those BluRays back

buy a bd player? i don't know why you would settle on a usb rw drive when you could just have a box that plugs in via HDMI and works

A bd player is a temporary solution.

At some point nobody will make bd players any more. Several big companies have already stopped production.

Then you would have a useless BluRay collection after your own player stops working.

The solution is of course to rip off the BluRay discs as soon as you buy them. Then you can have a higher-quality playback on a PC (due to much faster random access and sequential access on an SSD) and you can recopy them forever when the available storage media will change in the future, so you will not lose what you have paid for.

I think the more pressing issue is the medium degrading before the playback hardware. Disks have an average lifespan of 25 years. I surmise basic bluray hardware will last much longer.

The laser diode would probably be the first thing to fail in the player, and it likely wouldn't take 25 years if it was being used regularly.

and all existing players will disappear off the face of the earth never to grace the listings of ebay again

come on man

people can complain about the dvd/bd scrambling restricting your freedoms and stopping you from making backups etc, and sure that's true

but if you just want to sit in front of the tv and watch a film you bought, idk what more you could ask for

I'm out of HDMI ports on the TV.

Anyway, I bought a bluray player, plugged it in via USB, and it works.

Also, do modern bd players let you skip DVD trailers and fbi warning videos? My USB setup does...

> 4Chan has blocked the entire UK IP range

this isn't true

it's nice but i don't see why it has to be made and ran by the browser maker itself

their site seems to be down (hugged to death?) so here's another copy https://linuxjournal.rubdos.be/ljarchive/LJ/059/3111.html

well maybe but they don't do a very good job at it

popular stuff that you could watch anywhere, you can pirate of course

but anything more obscure is impossible to find, or was there at one point but is now long gone

Whose "they"? Private sites do a phenomenal job at preserving a large amount of rare content.

what's the point if no one can see it

he finished the introduction paragraph and then the article ended

i think normally they just display a number on the screen

most of the time the article doesn't matter that much and you can still have interesting discussions of the topic at hand

it isn't open source but it's very good (foxit reader at least, dont know about the editor)

Ah, I totally overlooked the OS part.