blu-ray compatibility

Morbier

that wrote: »

But do you use it? Often? Visited Blockbusters recently ?

Ha ha. Use it daily to record TV progs with adverts in (so we can skip them). Use it as 'rewind and pause' live TV. If I like a film or TV series enough to watch again, usually transfer the recordings to a DVD or Blu-ray. I've got some that are 10 years old and they still play OK. Don't know how long they'll last, who does? But I also buy some films from Amazon or Apple.

Just because it's old tech, doesn't mean I can't still get benefit from it. I've probably got more DVDs than Blockbusters ever had.

EveryWhere

Neil_Jones wrote: »

Can be. Dual layer Blu Ray can hold 50Gb. Depends if you want all the extras, subtitles and so on with it.

I'm sure you missed my too subtle hint..
A Rip doesn't have to be the same size as media on the disc. Remember, this is only if the playing of the media is not possible with their external standalone player.

For instance, if the recipient has an internal blu-ray player on their laptop/PC, they can use https://www.redfox.bz/en/anydvdhd.html to facilitate the viewing of the discs.

mobileron

Now the easy way,log into Amazon usa with your UK account,then send in the normal way from a USA base.

EveryWhere

mobileron wrote: »

Now the easy way,log into Amazon usa with your UK account,then send in the normal way from a USA base.

This is assuming that they don't already have the collection and just want to send it.

coffeehound

mobileron wrote: »

Now the easy way,log into Amazon usa with your UK account

Does it let you do that now? Seem to remember having to open a separate account for .com in the past

wongataa

coffeehound wrote: »

Does it let you do that now? Seem to remember having to open a separate account for .com in the past

You have always been able to log into any Amazon country site with whatever Amazon login you have. I have logged into Amazon US & Amazon Germany with my Amazon UK account. If log into another Amazon country site you will find products that you can't get shipped to your UK address as you are not in the same country.

Geodark

that wrote: »

Think there were about 5 or 6 different regions. these were built into the player. Most cheap players are multi-region, but it you have a say Sony/tosh/ one then you may have problems

However a computer blueray reading is not the same and a blue reader in its own box, and to watch bluray films on a computer, depending on the above may not play. A computers blueray is often for storage, not strictly film, and vlc probably will not play it, but this restriction may by now also be overcome?

PowerDVD from Cyberlink over comes DVD pc limitations and allows you to watch Blueray DVDs on a PC.

DVDFAB and others will remove encryption.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2011/sep/01/ask-jack-dvd-regions

I do not know anyone with a standalone DVD player attached to their TV anymore, as most people stream it either from a home server, or use the likes of Netflix

I do - I use netflix etc, but I also have a dedicated 4k uhd DVD player as part of my home cinema setup.