>e-celeb uploads a video>blu ray drives go up from 400 pln to 900 pln overnight>last of the remaining stock dries upI fucking hate the tech world.
what if you just download the movie someone already ripped from a bd from the internet
It's still easy and cheap to get them. You just don't know where to look. Also admit it, you only wanted one after you watched this video. It's the only reason you researched the prices and looked in the wrong places.I'll give you a hint. A loose slim drive as pictured in that thumbnail is what you can get the cheapest. You can get a USB enclosure to stick it in for less than $10.
>>108969599You don't have unlimited storage and it's better to just put in your Blu Ray if you want to watch a movie?
>>108969621>It's the only reason you researched the prices and looked in the wrong places.I've been considering getting one for 2 years but struggled to justify the price in the absence of Blu Ray discs until I obtained some.
>>108969592>blu ray drives go up from 400 pln to 900 pln overnightAnon, they were well over 500zł for a while now. It's a global issue, they're out of production. Managed to snatch a BW-16D1X-U for like 580zł recently, while the BW-16D1HT I have costed me ~450zł and the last unit I saw was 2000zł. The supply dried up because the production ceased.
>>108969635I bought mine a couple months ago for $20
https://zenmarket.jp/en/search.aspx?q=Panasonic%2BUJ-240&p=1&pos=6&searchMode=custom&stores=18I'll just leave this here
>>108969627seems inconvenientsome AV2 encode of a bd would probably reduce the space by 70% without perceptual quality loss
>>108969667>without perceptual quality lossOh no. It's a terminal case.
>>108969677I dont get it
>>108969682>fake grain
>>108969692just put the video through topaz denoising filter
>>108969639>$20seems legit
Remember when they used to say 128k mp3 audio was "CD audio" and nobody questioned it? That's where we're at with video codec marketing claims.>>108969695Good one. Got an IRL laugh out of me.>>108969699Glorious Nippon came through as it always does.
>>108969592>noooo how could others buy shit on the cheap! only I should be able to do ityea okay faggot
>>108969592I bought mine 2 years ago. All I do is looking through decades old burnt CD with it.I would've use it more if there's even a single movie disc store next to me.Just get a DVD drive for $15.
>>108969735I'm going to start ordering some off Scamazon to rip and upload to the internet. There are also Facebook groups where I live where people buy and sell discs so I can unload them after I rip them, or find other discs to rip that way. It's not like physical media collecting is only a western firstie hobby.
Usecase for owning a bluray drive?
What the fuck? Why did they get so expensive? Sure production ceased but they sold millions over 20 some years. My pioneer BDXL burner was like $50 5 years ago and my LG HDDVD/BD combo was only like $40. Do people really want to rip Blu-rays that badly or is this a zoomer thing like what happened to point and shoot cameras?
>>108969750Creating decrypted backup copies of movies you legally own on bluray discs for personal use and never uploading them to the internet or sharing with others because you're a good boy. Also burning jailbreak discs for the PS4 and maybe the PS5 for the express purpose of booting homebrew software and never pirated games because you respect the law.
>>108969757Because your external bluray drive couldn't watch any legitimate bluray disc movie after Intel drops the support. It's only good at burning discs and nothing else.
>>108969592What the fuck are you talking about? It was a sales person promoting a product. He did his job and was paid for doing it.What is your problem? Why would you mention it here anyways? Are you also a sales person shilling your shit?
>>108969785That's not how it works lolhttps://zenmarket.jp/mercariproduct.aspx?itemCode=m73409897877Srsly I gave you guys the cheat code already. If you actually are bummed out about this and not just looking for a reason to bitch about YouTubers now is the time to acquire a drive.
>>108969627But blu rays cost more per gb than modern storage and you can't even rewrite them? Yeah It's true that modern storage options are more volatile just don't forget them under your desk for 10 years and you should be fine.
>>108969785This only applies to DRM on 4K discs. My Pioneer isn't even one of the 4K models, has all the jewish bus encryption and shit, I've never had an issue playing or ripping a regular blu-ray. I just don't understand why this would drive up prices for the entire market when most drives don't even read the 4K discs.
>>108969846If you're using VLC to watch the movies, you're already bypassing the DRM to some extend.
>>108969867If you're buying UHD blurays then watching them in VLC you're probably mentally retarded.You'll want a Ugoos AM6B+ and a nice TV if you're into that.
>>108969867Yeah but libaacs just uses tables of keys to emulate being a legitimate player. It's still encrypted coming from the drive. It's not brute forcing anything like CSS on dvds. I think 4K discs use a different model where the only way to circumvent it is modified firmware.
>>108969846MT1959 based drives can be patched to allow playback and ripping of 4K Blu-Rays. Those also went out of production, hence the ridiculous surge in pricing.
>>108969763What if I have only 2 Blu Ray discs?
>>108970000Nice quads bro. If you don't think you will ever want to acquire another one for as long as you live I suggest that you download someone else's rips of those discs from the internet and pretend you made them yourself. They're not rare enough to be completely unavailable, now are they? Hell if you tell me what they are and which region I can probably throw them on gofile.
>>108969975I don't think my drive uses that chipset but it looks like my Pioneer 212M is on an old enough firmware to be used with Libredrive and crossflashed to the 4K one. Considering how little I use it part of me really wants to sell it to some retro game tard for $500 on eBay. It's 110 outside and daddy needs to fix his HVAC blower motor.
anyone who needs this already has it if you need it now and don't have one just buy it the price is literally never going to drop so there's no point being mad about this if it does make you mad just sell it down the line for more than you paid for it what's the problem
>>108970652With the way they are age gating the internet, you would be wise to be hoarding software, local AI models, porno, and pirated media now before everything you do online is tied to an electronic ID.
>decent BD drives becoming hen's teeth like S-VHS decksfuckin' lmao
>>108969592You can get blu-ray players from good will for literally 6.99
>>108971569I'm sure you can probably get those from Japan cheaper too. You'll need to perform some feats of autism to identify the ones that are worthwhile because JVC didn't use the same model numbers there.
>>108971464I'm not worried because me and my friends will be trading other people's IDs on Telegram. We already are.
>>108969592>e-celebWho?
Why would anyone buy a Blu-ray?Is torrenting really that hard for dumb people?
>>108971679If nobody buys it how does the torrent get made?
>>108971690web-rip
>>108971690>imagine waiting months for a physical copy to come out to watch itLOL
>>108971691Worse quality and still requires money to be spent. Simply put it doesn't bother me if I'm buying these things, sharing them, and you get them for free. I'd think you were based if you did it too but that's your own decision. But somebody has to do it.>>108971692I prefer watching older movies anyway. I am not especially worried about the fastest release of the latest capeshit slopfest.
>>108971691>pleb-rip
>>108971679As always piracy drives me to buy physical.
>>108969975Does this work with BU40?
>>108971954Yes
>>108969592Nothing will ever replace my ultimate libredrive bluray burner.
>>108969592>plnwut
>>108971954uhh that the LG one? I think so, the MakeMKV forum is where you go for the modded firmware and flashing tools so you'll learn everything about it from there. And also only after flashing LibreDrive can you then flash OmniDrive for the Redump project archival of CD's and DVD's, one of the reasons I opted for a MT1959 BD-RE despite not having any Blu-Rays. Also forgot you had to do LibreDrive first before you could Ribshark/OmniDrive it when I was flashing my external spare lol, but nothing bad happened, just an error message.>>108971994Polish pesos, these funny little Monopoly papers
>>108972038Those coins look cool.
>>108972099One thing I like the most about our silly toy money is how well it's designed. The late Andrzej Heidrich knew what he was doing, may God rest his soul. It even feels nice in touch, unlike the soulless plastic Euro garbage.
>youtuber uploads a video of something he bought at a thrift store>suddenly it costs more on ebay than it did when it was brand new
>>108972302That's why you need to look beyond eBay and thrift stores. It's also why you need to get what you can while you can.
>>108969592a video from a shitter with 100k views isnt depleting any stock
>>108969592>blu ray drives go up from 400 pln to 900 pln overnightokay?
