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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: 2) by RandomFactor on Sunday February 17 2019, @12:20AM (3 children)

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 17 2019, @12:20AM (#802261) Journal

    The over the top DRM turned me off pretty hard as well. Never needed to switch off DVD so never have.

    Mostly moot with streaming anyway.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @07:56AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @07:56AM (#802413)

    The over the top DRM turned me off pretty hard as well.

    In addition to that, the twenty minute wait for loading a new disk that I saw on a friend's gen 1 Sony BluRay player indicated that the format was something I was never going to buy, players or disks. To this day I've never purchased a bluray player or a bluray disk.

  • (Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Sunday February 17 2019, @08:17AM

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Sunday February 17 2019, @08:17AM (#802418)

    AFAICT, I have never even met anyone with a Blu-Ray player.

    I am in the UK, which may have a bearing on it. I guess a lot of people here would interpret DRM and forced advertising as "it does not work".

    Plus, if you wanted Hollywood films, and had a choice of "now, via streaming" or "on a disk, after they are a year old". Which one would you choose?

    For everyone else there is Youtube (or Pornhub).

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