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Re:The golden age of streaming TV is over by maccard on Monday December 19, 2022 @08:39AM (#34051871)
> Assuming you're talking about blu ray rather than dvd here too because my TV supports 4k HDR, and the last dvd player I owned was 480p.

My DVD player requires a separate input on the TV, controller, and wall socket. The player needs to be physically accessible too, and you need to store physical discs.

Changing DVDs is significantly more involved than changing a movie on Netflix, and finding something that you know you have on DVD Vs on Netflix required someone else to have correctly put the disk away.

Lastly, those things are just noisy as hell.

Re:The golden age of streaming TV is over by synu on Monday December 19, 2022 @01:37PM (#34055771)
I have a blue ray dvd player and the quality seems.. fine. I don’t really know. It’s quiet as well, and I always put my dvds away where they go.

And anyway, it’s not really competing with Netflix since I sort of gave up on Netflix because it didn’t reliably carry most of my favorite movies and tv shows. It’s a choice between loading a dvd or not being able to watch it, not between loading a dvd vs clicking on Netflix. I’m in Europe so the selection is even worse.