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bit_user The article said: the Sony recorders that are seeing the last shipments this month uniquely target the Japanese domestic TV recording market. Kyodo says that this particular recording market has finally been “snuffed out” due to the rise of streaming services. I still record some ATSC 1.0 broadcasts via mplayer and a USB TV tuner device. This produces .ts (MPEG-2 Transport Stream) files, which my blu-ray player can play off a disc and which my new HiSense laser projector can play via DLNA or via USB stick. Windows can also play them, if you download a free MPEG-2 codec from the MS store. And, of course, MPlayer and VLC can play them. You can also do lossless editing via avidemux, if you're careful about how you configure it. That's a nice little video editor, BTW. It's a bit light on features, but gives you lots of low-level control. I have yet to look into ATSC 3.0. None of my devices support that. Even a LG OLED TV I looked at, last year, still supported only ATSC 1.0. Reply
usertests Blu-ray PC drives, players, and discs are expected to remain niche but stable markets. Is there anything stable about the market for Blu-ray PC drives? They were never widespread like DVD drives are (you can buy a cheap, old OEM PC and get one integrated), and I think they've been mostly discontinued, and certain models that you can flash with "downgraded" firmware to read UHD discs are being hoarded. https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19634 Reply
bit_user usertests said: Is there anything stable about the market for Blu-ray PC drives? They were never widespread like DVD drives are (you can buy a cheap, old OEM PC and get one integrated), Well, one difference is that PC software was never distributed on blu-ray, whereas there was a time when a lot of software came on DVD. Reply
DS426 Wow, hard to believe it's been 20 years for Blu-Ray. I still have a BD-RW drive in my desktop PC, though I haven't used it in years — no optical at all actually. My wife gets by with an external DVD drive for old game discs and some work stuff, was the only option for that mini-ITX build. Reply
InfiniteWeatherMan bit_user said: I still record some ATSC 1.0 broadcasts via mplayer and a USB TV tuner device. This produces .ts (MPEG-2 Transport Stream) files, which my blu-ray player can play off a disc and which my new HiSense laser projector can play via DLNA or via USB stick. Windows can also play them, if you download a free MPEG-2 codec from the MS store. And, of course, MPlayer and VLC can play them. You can also do lossless editing via avidemux, if you're careful about how you configure it. That's a nice little video editor, BTW. It's a bit light on features, but gives you lots of low-level control. I have yet to look into ATSC 3.0. None of my devices support that. Even a LG OLED TV I looked at, last year, still supported only ATSC 1.0. Don't, because right now the DRM requirements are making those broadcasts unwatchable. I have a box that supports ATSC 3.0, and I can't even watch the broadcasts that I want to because the FCC blocked the supported box. Until the FCC figures out this DRM mess nobody is going to record anything, much less watch. Reply
soundtrek My main worry is production of Window compatible BD drives ceases globally when those in my two PCs die. Not that I use them much to point of wear; mainly for occasional CD track ripping. And if want to play one of the very few Region B BD movies from my collection or rip it via makeMKV then I want to have the freedom to do so. Of course, consumer freedom is poison to streaming companies, which of course includes movie studio and content owner Sony, which now has more of stake in than marketing any hardware save for TVs-and even production of those they're spinning off jointly with TCL. I guess it all depends whether the BD format becomes open source for whoever to continue making BD drives. Bad it all looks very bad for collectors and users of physical media. Reply
InfiniteWeatherMan soundtrek said: My main worry is production of Window compatible BD drives ceases globally when those in my two PCs die. Not that I use them much to point of wear; mainly for occasional CD track ripping. And if want to play one of the very few Region B BD movies from my collection or rip it via makeMKV then I want to have the freedom to do so. Of course, consumer freedom is poison to streaming companies, which of course includes movie studio and content owner Sony, which now has more of stake in than marketing any hardware save for TVs-and even production of those they're spinning off jointly with TCL. I guess it all depends whether the BD format becomes open source for whoever to continue making BD drives. Bad it all looks very bad for collectors and users of physical media. Totally understand. BD unfortunately had it time, and streaming seems to be King. I don't like this because we can't use the media if they lock it up. Hopefully that doesn't happen, but yea, if your BD players die, you won't be able to replace it unless you want to pay a high price because of scarcity. It won't happen immediately, but it will happen eventually… Reply
bit_user InfiniteWeatherMan said: Don't, because right now the DRM requirements are making those broadcasts unwatchable. I have a box that supports ATSC 3.0, and I can't even watch the broadcasts that I want to because the FCC blocked the supported box. Until the FCC figures out this DRM mess nobody is going to record anything, much less watch. Heh, I remember when the ominous news of the dreaded "broadcast flag" broke, about 20 years ago. New HD receivers were supposed to respect the broadcast flag by refusing to record content where it was present, as well as I think sending any decoded version of the signal with HDCP (encryption) enabled. There was some panic about this, and I bought the only PCI tuner card that supported Linux, for something like $200 (just a bit of profiteering, there). Then, there was some kind of course-reversal and the broadcast flag rules got scrapped. I used that capture card for a while, but eventually it got flaky and I replaced it with a $35 USB tuner. I've actually gone through two USB tuners, but the second one has kept working for about a decade. Reply
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/televisions/sony-will-ship-its-final-blu-ray-recorders-this-month-exit-from-japanese-market-the-end-of-an-era-for-the-segment#main
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