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Has RedFox even tried to defeat TraktTV's DRM? Maybe it's a snap.

Kind of a lame excuse. I should think individual customer satisfaction would rank among those "important things". How difficult can doing so be anyway? And as you said there's no plans to do so anyway that's a whole more like an outright refusal. Talk about an anti-user attitude.

Really? I can't believe this? Why can't AnyStream download content from Amazon Prime and not from Trakt?

For years I've been hoping and searching for a DVD release of this Rod Steiger classic TV episode. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Slow_Fade_to_Black Though some 20 minutes were later added by Universal for a 1967 theatrical release, it's since been only available for viewing by appointment...

As for Disney still sitting on whatever number of titles-and not that I'm ever optimistic about any of this for collectors-it could be that Disney is doing this simply to sweeten the sale of their physical media business to Sony. Obviously, by withholding release of those titles Sony will then...

At this point, I would think what matters most is the survival of the boutique BD/DVD distribs; Criterion, Kino, Powerhouse, Scorpion (defunct?), Twilight Time (defunct?), Radiance (new label?), Dark Sky, Classic Films (new?), Warner Archive (defunct?), Eureka, VCI, Cult Films, et al. As long as...

Though it's fairly obvious why most of Redfox management are pro-streaming, I certainly detest the idea of paying monthly fees for services to access tons of movies and music that I wouldn't let my cat watch or hear-the same vendors who would delete loads of my favorite movies, TV episodes and...

Encouragingly, as it was inevitable that streaming companies would be inclined, if not forced, to purge titles, things seem to be looking up for physical media-and thus, the hardware that supports it. Now let's continue helping to keep it that way...

What I love about PowerDVD, at least my old version, is that it probably has the easiest to use zoom control of practically any Windows player, though VLC probably still has the best slow motion control.

Your laptop's "internal" drive?? My Sony laptop from 2008, that died over 5 years ago, was one of the last laptops so equipped available anywhere. Still have the original system drive and OS? No issues with the display?

It's been years since I've looked at the file directory of any DVD containing TV episodes (I'm still looking for a local professional to build my ZFS based NAS for storing select content https://www.lidatasolutions.com/ ). But I always assumed that each episode on the disc had its own "TS-video"...

And I still think that with LG and Pioneer likely being the only makers of internal/external BD drives for computers, we should inform the marketing staff of these other brands that a robustly built BD drive for backup sessions is what we need to protect our music and video libraries...

Thanks for that. But the other question is BD drive wear from ripping a DVD containing 5 TV episodes to an ISO vs. to 5 separate MKV files. Which way will likely cause the least wear, if at all substantial?

Just curious about collection sizes, of those here up for sharing. Currently, total number of my movies are ~ 180 discs, of which ~ 33% are BDs. For TV episodes, it's ~ also ~ 180 discs, though ~ 18% are BDs. For most of my movies, I thought that saving them as ISO files to mirrored pairs of...

There's no doubt that streaming is rapidly eclipsing optical media, at least for movies and TV entertainment. That's true even among those like us who are passionate about maintaining our own collections on disc and/or ripped and stored offline and/or online. And we also do this of course...

In total I must have combined ~ 350 DVDs and BDs. This month I'm hoping to work with a local IT service company decide on a multiple drive NAS solution for backing up most of them to folders of uncompressed MKV files, save for the less precious titles on BD, as that format is more physically...

Okay, so those brands may not import large volumes to your brick & mortar stores, but when in need of BD drives, why can't individuals like you or your friends just place your own order from overseas online stores like here or...

HA! https://www.stereophile.com/content/okto-dac8-stereo-da-processor https://www.stereophile.com/content/okto-research-dac8-pro-da-processor Want to bet how many people from the US and worldwide have been ordering these lovely DACs directly from Pavel Krasensky's factory in Prague...

Ordering consumer electronics beyond national borders must be done thousands of times/minute. So, what's stopping you from placing an overseas order? Scroll down on that page and find at least three US based resellers.

There's still hope. https://teac-datastorage.com/ And even if though it's analog audio performance was found to be audibly below that of the Oppo's, this new and massive BD player offers proof that demand for physical media player's is hardly over...