LG stops making Blu-ray players

Never had 1, my 1st DVD player was the PS2, which was the last home console I owned.
I'm not sure if I'll get a player, maybe a burner for my future PC build.
 
The Mad Atheist said:
Never had 1, my 1st DVD player was the PS2, which was the last home console I owned.
I'm not sure if I'll get a player, maybe a burner for my future PC build.
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Given the costs of PC hardware, consoles are not a terrible value unless you were already going to build an expensive PC.
 
The Mad Atheist said:
Never had 1, my 1st DVD player was the PS2, which was the last home console I owned.
I'm not sure if I'll get a player, maybe a burner for my future PC build.
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I must inform you that watching movies on Windows, or any other desktop OS I presume, is not that simple. You may have to buy software and surround audio via an amplifier is not easy either, at least without a modern amp with an HDMI throughput, outputting sound via HDMI from the PC. I tried to enjoy movies with my bluray drive for a long period on Windows, though with free software solutions, but alas, it is too unrelieable and the quality was not always satisfactory. 200+ € for a new (UHD capable) player - of course when in sale they might be much cheaper - is not that bad of a price compared to the hassle with Windows. There was some time when Windows took into account movie playback on some level, but that has not been a case for a long while, just like optical drives are not a center focus anymore in the OS (I do not mean they don't work, just that they are not that relevant). You might even want to research how through the PCI-E bus cannot be transferred encrypted, meaning protected/copy righted, material, which in itself is a major issue, if you are not willing to send the picture via iGPU. Dedicated players are simple, they just work and are nice to use, in my case such even reads scratchy discs when the optical drive did not. It was a neat idea to watch discs on Windows, since the only display I have is a monitor, but today having the player is truly a thing I'm grateful for; you may connect the player via HDMI to the display and one solution for audio is to connect the player to an external DAC-AMP.
 
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GamerNerves said:
I must inform you that watching movies on Windows, or any other desktop OS I presume, is not that simple. You may have to buy software and surround audio via an amplifier is not easy either, at least without a modern amp with an HDMI throughput, outputting sound via HDMI from the PC. I tried to enjoy movies with my bluray drive for a long period on Windows, though with free software solutions, but alas, it is too unrelieable and the quality was not always satisfactory. 200+ € for a new (UHD capable) player - of course when in sale they might be much cheaper - is not that bad of a price compared to the hassle with Windows. There was some time when Windows took into account movie playback on some level, but that has not been a case for a long while, just like optical drives are not a center focus anymore in the OS (I do not mean they don't work, just that they are not that relevant). You might even want to research how through the PCI-E bus cannot be transferred encrypted, meaning protected/copy righted, material, which in itself is a major issue, if you are not willing to send the picture via iGPU. Dedicated players are simple, they just work and are nice to use, in my case such even reads scratchy discs when the optical drive did not. It was a neat idea to watch discs on Windows, since the only display I have is a monitor, but today having the player is truly a thing I'm grateful for; you may connect the player via HDMI to the display and one solution for audio is to connect the player to an external DAC-AMP.
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It's not complicated to plug an AVR or a sound bar into a HDMI port on a computer.
 
Best Buy has the Sony x700 on sale for $150 right now. HDR10 and Dolby Vision. You do have to manually switch between the two, but a solid player. I've had no issues with mine for the last three+ years.
 
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