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If anybody in the USA is interested in a region-free blu-ray player (literature.cafe)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://www.220-electronics.com/ is having a sale. I have bought several players from them and they've been great

Now, I know what your thinking, are region free players piracy? Well, it depends which country you live in

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Found the millenial :p /jk

It's essentially a player which ignores the region locks on bluray discs.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Found the millenial

millenial? Some of us are now in our forties. We grew up in the format wars

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

the VHS vs Beta format wars, not the HD-DVD vs Blu-ray format wars for the young'ns out there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Digital format wars were a thing while Blockbuster was still around. They know both

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How quickly we forget Laserdisc and Video CDs.

Oh and UMD, but I don't think "I want to watch a movie in poor quality on a tiny screen on a device that'll probably run out of battery before the movie finishes" was a market anybody was really interested in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sony minidisc says hi :p

I remember a time when i was hoping they'll implement the minidisc as an alternate removerable storage for PC. More robust compared to floppy disks, less delicate compared to CDR, and is rewritable too. LOL

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I remember ripping a CD to one with an optical cable. It split by tracks and everything.

I felt like Johnny Mnemonic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Don't forget about VideoNow

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I think they're saying the opposite: millennials as "boomers" so-to-speak.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Millennial because they grew up only knowing MP3s and digital media and didn't get to experience disc based media. :p

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What in the world??

I’m a millennial and I grew up with 8 tracks and cassettes. I was in grade school when we got our first CD player.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

TIL bluray discs have region locks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Same. Maybe DVDs have them to, what a wild world

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Dvds have more regions, 6, while blu-rays just have 3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

What