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[–]Sidicas 1 point2 points ago


I think the best thing to do with Blu-Ray support is to simply kill it off. Blu-Ray is destined to live a short life. There are too many problems with it. Even if you buy blu-ray playback software on Windows, it doesn't work after a few years because Sony keeps changing the add-on content and/or the encryption keys. You'd think that Cybermedia and WinDVD would keep updating their older versions to play the latest Blu-Rays, but the truth is that they don't after 3 years and if you want to play the latest Blu-Rays, or use the latest blu-ray add-on content, you're going to have to keep buying the Blu-Ray software upgrades every 3-4 years. This is dumb and broken, even for legit paying customers.

There's no reason to keep Blu-Ray around, it's a bain to everybody except for those who didn't buy Sony's Playstation 3 to play Blu-Rays. Even companies that sold Blu-Ray players are very slow to patch those Blu-Ray players to play the latest Blu-Rays and that leaves a lot of unhappy Blu-Ray users. Want Blu-Ray 3D? Oh, looks like you need to buy a whole new hardware Blu-Ray player and/or buy a software upgrade because some corporation doesn't want you to have it until you fork over more money.. Such BS.

As somebody who spent $70 on Blu-Ray software on Windows that a few years later, refused to play any newer Blu-Rays after around the time the Avatar's collectors edition Blu-Ray came out, and also failed to play a lot of the add-on content in Blu-Rays around that time as well. With all the free updates available installed... I'm pissed and glad I've gone back to DVDs and online content. Cybermedia wanted me to pay $50 to upgrade my Blu-Ray software to the latest version to play the latest Blu-Rays and Blu-Ray "add-on" content. Screw them. and screw blu-rays..

We can do better.. Somebody needs to take WebM and make a Netflix ondemand alternative. Google would be in the best position to do that.