Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com yessikg @literature.cafe 1y ago

If anybody in the USA is interested in a region-free blu-ray player

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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Same here, but after reading those losing access to digital purchases as the rights for the properties change vendors, for those that want to truly own the thing, they can no matter where they live.
- This is why I still believe in physical media. While most of my purchases are digital nowadays, I consider them disposable basically. For movies and games I really care about and want to be able to keep, I like physical.
  
  Its a shame drm free digital purchases was never a thing with movies like with music.
  
  Buy, download, bam, its yours forever.
What's a Region free player??
- Found the millenial :p /jk
  
  It's essentially a player which ignores the region locks on bluray discs.
  
  Found the millenial
  
  millenial? Some of us are now in our forties. We grew up in the format wars
  
  TIL bluray discs have region locks
  
  What
I just rip any disk I get, I haven't had to think about region locks for at least 15 years.
I have been out of the region free game since the dvd days. What's a good place to shop from now? Used to have a few different foreign sites I used and trusted in the early 00's but they appear to be long gone. I live in the US currently.
- Dude linked it in the main post
  
  https://www.220-electronics.com
  
  Man, I bet that pissed you off, lol. Apologies. I'm looking for the media, not the devices. I have a few LG region free players already. Looking for a place to purchase discs that's reputable and has a decent selection.
- https://www.blu-ray.com/deals/ is a great place to view deals on movies and shows. Most of them are sold on Amazon though. https://grindhousevideo.com/ is another store I've bought from. They seem to have a decent selection of more obscure titles.
- What I do is change the country on amazon and order it from that country directly. The shipping can be expensive tho
I had heard of this company a while back when I was looking for this exact same thing. They have been in the business for many years and their methods of cracking have been mostly reliable till now. If you need one, get it from them or through their Amazon store
If you're ripping, does 4K upscaling and 10 bit/hdr and dolby help with anything?
- Not really, the ripping software has to get around the region before it can list the contents available to rip
Will damn I just bought a Panasonic ub820

Edit wait damn, lol they're selling em for $750 bucks. I got mine for $350, but region locked.
Damn! If I had more region exclusive DVDs/Blu-rays and didn't already have the Vizio I got from a thrift store I'd definitely keep this in mind!

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