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Samsung to Stop Releasing New Blu-ray Players in the U.S.

posted by martyb on Saturday February 16 2019, @10:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the Blu-ray-blues dept.

takyon writes:

Samsung stops releasing Blu-ray players in the US

Did you notice that Samsung hasn't made a peep about Blu-ray players at CES or other recent trade shows? There's a good reason for it: the company is exiting the category in the US. Samsung told Forbes and CNET that it's no longer introducing Blu-ray players for the country. It didn't provide reasoning for the move, but Forbes sources reportedly said that Samsung had scrapped a high-end model that was supposed to arrive later in 2019.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Saturday February 16 2019, @11:25PM (3 children)

    by edIII (791) on Saturday February 16 2019, @11:25PM (#802241)

    Not crying any tears. BluRay devices are about as anti-consumer as you can get. Big Entertainment is on fucking crack if they think a 3D 4K movie is worth multiple times the price of a movie ticket. Get back to under $10 per title and I might consider a purchase, but never the hardware.

    Instead of putting in such a device, that doesn't respect my ownership or privacy in any way, shape, or form, I choose piracy:

    1. No PUOs. No pieces of fucking hell-bound shit in Hollywood are telling me that I have to watch their fucking adverts, or that FBI message. When I hit the title menu button, it fucking goes to the title menu
    2. No sudden incompatible releases because the BluRay player needs to be firmware updated with the latest encryption keys
    3. No information leakage with the device reporting back to Corporate about what I watch because the new devices have to be Internet connected 24/7
    4. No bullshit DRM built-in to my cabling
    5. No extreme fucking bloat on the title. A ton of wasted bytes storing bullshit I don't even want.

    It's an environmental waste too. All that damn plastic wrapping, the sleeves, the BluRay itself. We have the Internet. Distribution would be environmentally neutral, if you didn't consider the impact of the hardware creation and power generation. Even then, better than creating all that useless waste and BluRay players destined for the dumps.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by NateMich on Saturday February 16 2019, @11:44PM (2 children)

    by NateMich (6662) on Saturday February 16 2019, @11:44PM (#802249)

    More importantly, almost all recent movies are just garbage anyway. I wouldn't watch most of that shit for free.

    • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Saturday February 16 2019, @11:53PM (1 child)

      by acid andy (1683) on Saturday February 16 2019, @11:53PM (#802254) Homepage Journal

      Couldn't agree more. It's been that way for at least 15 years. When will it end?

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @11:56PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @11:56PM (#802256)

        When the Chinese audience stops gobbling up CGI movies en masse.