Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs: How to stop your films and music from disappearing::In an era where many films and albums are stored in the cloud, “streaming anxiety” is making people buy more DVDs, records – and even cassette tapes.

  • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    !!WARNING!!

    There is still DRM on DVDs and Blu-rays. Don’t think everything is perfect because you have the physical media. You still only have a license to play it.

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        10 months ago

        Did you need a specific blu ray drive for that? I thought about trying to backup my disc but the drives to do it are like a couple hundred bucks each… Little bit steep for me.

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          10 months ago

          My set up is a $70 Blu-ray drive and a $50 software (but it’s free if you use the beta)

          As far as I know, it’s compatible with all Blu-ray drives, just google MakeMKV

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              10 months ago

              After reviewing your link, my existing bluray drive happens to be on the list. But I didn’t do any flashing or anything along those lines. I just downloaded the software at it worked and so I paid for it.

              I have the LG WH16NS40 for your reference

              edit: checking out the FAQ on the site, looks like for 4k blurays it is recommended to flash the firmware, I only have 1 4k bluray (I don’t have a 4k TV) and it seemed to rip fine but I used handbrake to downscale it to 1080p to save space since I don’t have a 4k television

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                10 months ago

                Hey good to know, thanks for going out of your way to check your model number and post how it went. That helps a ton to know you don’t necessarily have to flash. Might give it a go if I can find a reasonably priced drive, much appreciated!

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      10 months ago

      It’s way easier to break. And even ignoring that, for these technologies at least, as long as you keep/find a working player, it’s fine-ish. You can still do backup/duplicate too. As far as conservation is concerned, physical media gives these options.

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      10 months ago

      Do Blu rays require to phone home periodically to validate drm over the Internet? Genuine question., as I have read here that right to play them can be revoked.

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        10 months ago

        They do not require any online connection. AACS has some ability to revoke media player keys, but it does so by encrypting future releases in such a way that the revoked player can not decrypt them (how this works technically is a bit complicated).

        So if they decide to revoke your player, it can still play every Blu-ray disc manufactured before the revokation went into effect.

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          10 months ago

          So yes a temporary internet connection is required. In order to download the updated keys.

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            10 months ago

            No, there are no updated keys that need to be downloaded. It’s kind of like, they just stop including the key matching the revoked device on future Blu-ray releases. All other devices are completely unaffected by this, because their key is still on the discs. So they don’t need to change or update anything.