Samsung To Stop Making Blu-Ray & 4K Blu-Ray Players For US Market

CNET ^ | February 15, 2019 | Ty Pendlebury

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

Samsung [announced] that it was no longer making 4K players and has confirmed that it will also halt production on new 1080p models. "Samsung will no longer introduce new Blu-ray or 4K Blu-ray player models in the US market," a Samsung spokesperson told CNET.  Samsung launched its last 4K players in 2017 and didn't add any new models to its lineup in 2018. A high-end 4K player for 2019 along the lines of its UBD-M9500 was in the works, a Forbes report says, but has now been scrapped...

[Openurmind]

Almost all of it was innovation and technology advancement over time. Except Bueray... That was a scam. lol

[Big Red Badger]

Abbott and Costellos’
TV shows are Hillarious,
I need to find some
Soupy Sales!

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

buying ‘used’ blu-ray discs

and digitally encoding them ftw
(reselling)

[mewzilla]

For the same reasons I still own dead tree edition books: I don’t ever have to worry if something I want goes out of circulation and I can resell it if I ever want to.

[minnesota_bound]

I have a blu-ray cd of John Wayne’s “The Searchers”.
The detail is so good you can view the stitching in the shirts. I do not like the streaming or broadcast quality.

I watch a lot of the old shows being broadcast on say ch 2.2 and 4.2 and 5.2 etc. They do not even broadcast at 480 let alone 1080. More like cell phone camera quality. The stations that say own ch 2 have the best quality then sub divide the ch 2 or 12 or 46 so many times that the quality is lousy. METV on ch 56.3 is so bad many times that you cannot clearly make out any details of faces.

I will buy blu-ray and then strip the copy protection then copy onto my pc as a blu-ray or a high quality mp4.
I use the PLEX app on the pc and ROKU to view on the tv set.

Movavi Video Suite 18 - TIP install trial then as you uninstall it will offer a 40% discount!!
https://www.movavi.com/suite/?asrc=main_menu

[redfreedom]

“I like having a hard copy. “

I’ve noticed on ROKU options to buy a movie instead of just paying to play. I believe what a person would be buying is the right to play it over and over again for just that one price. When that company goes out of business or changes policy those that bought the movie are out of luck.

My idea of buying something is to take physical possession or as you say having a hard copy.

[mowowie]

for later

[Nomad577]

The scary thing is going to be when the home internet prices go way up. Because it’s definitely coming, with everyone cutting cable with those same companies and Trump’s FCC guy changing net neutrality

I guess it’s justifiable because the intrnet is being used more for streaming, but I could see a situation where people have to cut the cord on home internet also

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

the prices of pre-owned US dvd online market will drop as well. Willing to pay less than $3 a disc for your video lbrary favorites?

[cableguymn]

We have kids. Our usage is measured in terabytes

[TheNext]

4K video?

I am holding out for 256K, then 4K will be obsolete.

[TheNext]

I am holding out for when movies are inductively downloaded into your brain.

But just the memory is injected. That save you the time of actually watching the movie.

[Enlightened1]

Interesting...

I have no data caps, but I am sure I probably pull a lot of data from watching movies, videos, etc..

The good news is data is getting faster and faster that data caps over the next 5 to 10 years will for the most part be phased out.

[trebb]

These days, many computers have them slots and ways to get the video to the TV....my DVD player has been gathering dust as it has sat idle on the “entertainment” center for a couple years...I remember when folks were using thumb-thick speaker wires to get “purer sound”....my ears couldn’t hear it them and my eyes and ears aren’t as discriminating as they used to be....

[DAC21]

“Streaming and on-demand is the future”

These units stream as well, and some can decode SACD and DVD-audio, they have there place. And as others have said if you have a high end TV compressed streaming of HD is good but not great like on disc. Having said that a majority of people are uneducated about audio/video capability and will believe that streaming Netflix is as good as it gets. Ultimately the uneducated consumer will win out and more manufactures will shut down there disc lines like Oppo Brand did in 2018. They were the gold standard of the disc player manufacturers.

[DAC21]

“And I think you are right... They should have just went to SD card format a longtime ago”

Recordable DVD discs cost a few dimes, a 50gb SD card for HDR content movies cost many dollars. That is what it boiled down to most likely. Also TV manufactures wanted you to buy all new hardware (players). Still yet USB connectors built into TV’s didn’t come around until many years after DVD came out. Just wrong timing.

[BBB333]

“I have a Blue Ray burner on my PC that I used to make backups of stuff on.”

That’s what I do as well.

I even purchase ‘out of region’ discs that I rip to .MKV files and stream them to my TV.

[DAC21]

“I’m hooked on “Northern Exposure” now”

Just an FYI, CBS has a reboot of Northern Exposure in the planning stages. Rob Morrow once again in the lead roll. Hard to believe Janine Turner would be back, she has shown Hollywierd her conservative stripes. Barry Corbin is 78, so no idea if he is up to the rigors. John Corbett is producing, but as of now he is not going to be reprising his roll.

[Big Red Badger]

I just really like the Moose!
Thanks.

[Openurmind]

I can see this... :)