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If Blu-ray is diseapearing, what's left for people who care about media quality? Last time I checked, the quality on legal streaming platform was barely comparable with Blu-ray. Did this improve?

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Kaleidescape has the same or better quality than Blu-ray. It's DRMed and probably won't continue to work if the company goes out of business though.

I'm tempted to buy one of their boxes and tell claude to make no mistakes, but if they're smart they're also using watermarking so cracking the DRM alone will not be enough.

They'll definitely ban your box and account if you leak anything. If they go out of business it will become fair game.

Well, they can only do that if they're using robust watermarking. You'd need to get two accounts on two boxes on two IPs, and compare the results.

Watermarking is only a problem if you're planning to go beyond future-proofing and distribute the result.

Considering its price and the fact that it's not actually streaming, you are kind of making the same point that streaming services cannot compete on quality.

As long as they keep making the disks, they'll keep making their way onto my jellyfin instance via a series of tubes.

It has not, and I would argue it got worse for some cases, because it got even more expensive to get the 4K tiers.

Moreover, 4k access is not guaranteed. Recently Disney+ removed it completely here in France due to some legal thing with the HEVC codec.

Yarrrrrrr

Pirated files will never be higher quality than the source. If streaming is the only thing left in the future it will be the limit of quality.

I heard the other day there are a few shows that are streaming in 4K (probably low bitrate) but the discs are only HD.

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