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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @12:16PM (1 child)
A few years back, I got the hankerin' to rewatch Babylon 5. Fortunately it was on the streaming platform I was subscribed to at the time, so I began watching from the beginning, an episode every couple of days or so. Then I had to stop, because it wasn't on that streaming platform anymore -- all the seasons were gone. Their license had run out.
I suppose I could have run around, trying to find out where it was licensed to next, if anywhere. Instead, I bought the DVDs, and now I can watch it as many times as I want, whenever I want. I don't have to worry about who has the license today, or if it's on a platform I have access to (physical or legal). I can (and do) rip the video from the DVDs (and my BluRays) and convert them to any video codec I wish, for playing wherever I desire.
When the internet's down, and here in the hinterland that happens a fair bit, I have plenty of content I can still watch. Or I can read on my Kindle -- hey, I'm not a complete luddite.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @02:13PM
I watched the first couple of seasons of an old anime on Netflix. Strangely they old have that. And not the rest.
So, we're not there yet.
But.
From the looks of moves being made by others big media are looking to kill the market if they can't control it.