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   Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 23:24:30 JST Eugen Rochko

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   I have not researched Blu-rays enough before buying my first one. You can't even play one on Windows by default, and VLC and MPC both require following arcane instructions from user forums to make it work. That's the last time I bother. DVDs were the superior format.

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     Psykus (psykus@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 23:26:25 JST Psykus

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     @Gargron HDCP was why I never bothered getting a BluRay drive originally

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     Jonly (jonly@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 23:26:48 JST Jonly

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     @Gargron copy protection really be a bitch

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 23:27:04 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • かき@GNUsocialJP

     I bought the Louis de Funès collection from France because it advertised having English subtitles, and those movies are very difficult to find online, but that was a lie too, only one of the 9 movies has English subtitles.

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     Chris Lowles (chrislowles@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 23:28:57 JST Chris Lowles

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     @Gargron There's moments when you can reeeeally tell that VLC is 23 years old, others not so much.

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     zaldarion (zaldarion@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 23:29:48 JST zaldarion

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     @Gargron I'm using daum potplayer as my default, and as it seems, they support blueray (not 100% sure). I'm too lazy to connect my blueray player right now ^^

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     Brian Dear (brianstorms@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 23:31:27 JST Brian Dear

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     @Gargron

     Hmm. Kinda like saying eh, this 4K retina screen might be nice and all but my MacSE still has the superior display.

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     藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii (taiyo@ostatus.taiyolab.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 23:32:51 JST 藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii

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     @Gargron I agree, Blu-Ray was ****.
     My previous carrier, my job was distributing WinDVD innJapan and got tons of troubles… Everyday, customer support staffs were annoying about claiming not to play Blu-Ray disks…. I studied how Blu-Ray copy protection works and concluded that the system is ****.

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     Bodo Tasche (bitboxer@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 23:47:46 JST Bodo Tasche

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     @Gargron once again pirating sounds like the better option 😅

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     ocdtrekkie (ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 23:58:51 JST ocdtrekkie

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     @Gargron I appreciate that Blu-rays can't be taken away from me, and their DRM is pretty suitably broken generally. so it preserves ownership at reasonable quality. But yeah playing on a PC is incredibly annoying, paid software is the most reliable way to do it, and 4K Blu-rays are no longer supported at all because the DRM relied on a deprecated processor feature.

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     mustang_ex (mustang_ex@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 00:01:00 JST mustang_ex

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     @Gargron you’re right that dvd was/is superior to blueray. That’s main reason why im sticking with dvds instead of jumping into bluerays.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 00:57:41 JST Charlie Stross

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     @Gargron The DRM on DVD was relatively rapidly cracked, to the studios insisted the BluRay consortium make their new version of DRM uncrackable. The result is players that are user-proof.

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     Miranda Whiting (mirandawhiting@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 02:32:36 JST Miranda Whiting

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     @Gargron Thanks for finding out so I don't have to!

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     jake (he/him) 🇵🇸 (jakeyounglol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 03:19:26 JST jake (he/him) 🇵🇸

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     @Gargron one of the many reasons to ditch windows

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     NOMORE (bassrck66@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 05:36:15 JST NOMORE

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     @Gargron

     MP4

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     Ruben Capiau (rubencapiau@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 05:46:30 JST Ruben Capiau

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     @Gargron At least this part of L'Aile ou la Cuisse (The Wing or the Thigh🍗) won't need English subtitles 😉: https://youtu.be/IsFfiD7TxVw?si=6V2WE_1jPQTpT7ma

     One of his best movies IMHO.

     #defunes #france