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FYI: Blurays get their decoding key off the internet. This is why all bluray players were bundled with Netflix and the like to entice you to hookup the player to the internet.
Don't believe me? Get a new bluray player, don't connect it to the internet and try to play your discs.
This just simply isn't accurate. There are often extra features that require an internet connection. And there are also some blu-ray movies that might require some form of internet connection to watch but the vast majority of consumer blu ray movies require no internet connection to watch them.
The first blue ray player I ever had didn't even have wifi or an ethernet port...
I have a bluray player with no internet capability what are you on and can I have some
I've never owned a dedicated Blu-ray player but I've been watching them on my Xbox for years and this got me curious so I disconnected it from the Internet and grabbed a few discs to test.
American History X, Mad Max Fury Road, and John Wick 3 with Blu-ray package release dates of 2009, 2015, and 2020, respectively. All three Blu-rays play just fine with no Internet connection. Unfortunately I don't have anything newer to see if this is a more recent change.
Back when I actually used a Blu-Ray player, it did take an update to play certain discs.
I don't bother with them anymore. DVD is sufficient quality and rips to files easily for low-profile additions to my library
Delusional. Also DVD has region locks as well.
It really is. I have a ton of movies even lower res than DVD, like 480x272 (because way back in 2008 I wanted to be able to play them on my PSP which couldn't handle anything bigger...) and they're perfectly watchable. But of course I grew up on broadcast TV and VHS, it's all uphill from there.
Yeah. Literally just watched "The Terminator" - which I legally bought on DVD and ripped - on a 65" OLED TV streamed from my Plex instance and it was perfectly fine. I do watch higher-res stuff but honestly at couch-distance DVD quality is enough.
As for region locks, my ripping software and drive couldn't give two shits about that.
Yes, exactly. I'll notice the quality difference if I'm standing 3 feet away from the screen, but that's not how I watch movies.
My blu-ray player has never been connected to the internet and works just fine.
I've never hooked a bluray player to the internet. The last time I had a bluray player bluray was new and the player only supported a physical connection. I had to connect it to the internet to update it before it would play media.
Now I just use the bluray reader in my server/computer to rip the media to jellyfin
A few people have brought up their ability to play newer discs - what are the odds that some Blu-Rays may contain updates bundled in?