On standalone players, you don't even know there is some sort of DRM, just insert and voilà (must something hardcoded in a player chip). For PC player, the program check if your AACS version is up to the version of your BR. If that's not the case (like your pc player is up to aacs 40 but your br has been pressed with aacs 50), you will have to update your program. Like dvd, it's a bit of a joke as you can easily override it. And anyway, BR are better on big screens than laptops ;)

As an avid supporter of both physical media and high definition movies i'll be glad to share my collection. :)

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!) This.

2) Some of these books are long out of print, and are unavailable even in digital form.

3) Even if I could replace my collection at the rate of a dollar a book, I don't happen to have that much money lying around, burning a hole in my pocket.

4) Amazon & DRM. 'Nuff said.

I disagree. It's not the same experience, but I'd hardly describe it as 'terrible'.

Don't get me wrong, I love my physical books. But having just gotten an e-reader for myself this past Christmas season, I can say it definitely has its upsides. When the wife and I head out on vacation in March, I liken having the ability to take a crapton of books in one little compact device, for one thing. And the backlighting on the e-reader is bright enough to read by but dim enough that it doesn't disturb my wife when I read in bed and she's trying to sleep. And the e-reader is much lighter than a hard cover and less bulky than a paperback. There are definite advantages to digital reading.

*edit* Oh yeah, movie list (not complete):

All the King's Men
American, The*
Avatar*
Avengers, The*
Batman Begins
Blade
Brides Maids
Bucket List, The
Cabin in the Woods, The
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cloud Atlas*
Dark Knight Rises, The*
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Devil Wears Prada, The
District 9
Eat, Pray, Love
Elysium*
Expendables, The (Extended Director's Cut)
Flyboys
Forrest Gump
French Connection 2
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (NA Version)*
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo*
Girl Who Played With Fire*
Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest*
Golden Compass, The*
Gravity
Green Zone
Harry Potter
Half Blood Prince
Deathly Hallows Part 1*
Deathly Hallows Part 2*
Hunger Games, The
Hunger Games, The: Catching Fire*
I Am Legend
Illusionist, The
Immortals*
I, Robot
Iron Man
Iron Man 3*
Jarhead
Jaws*
Jurassic Park*
Kingdom, The
Kingdom of Heaven*
King's Speech, The
Life of Brian
Little Miss Sunshine
Lord of the Rings: Extended Edition
Fellowship of the Ring
Two Towers, The
Return of the King, The
Magic Mike*
Men In Black
Men In Black III*
Moon
Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader*
Pacific Rim*
Pan's Labyrinth
Passchendaele
Phantom of the Opera, The
Pride and Prejudice (2 disc BBC production)
Princess Bride, The*
Queen, The
Reign of Fire
Rise of the Planet of the Apes*
Scott Pilgrim vs the World*
Serenity
Shark Boy and Lava Girl
Sherlock Holmes
Sideways
Silver Linings Playbook*
Skyfall*
Spaceballs*
Starship Troopers
Star Trek (2010)*
Star Trek:
I: The Motion Picture
II: The Wrath of Khan
III: The Search for Spock
IV: The Voyage Home
V: The Final Frontier
VI: The Undiscovered Country
Sucker Punch*
Sucker Punch (Extended Cut)*
Terminator 3
Thirty Days of Night
Three Hundred
Transformers
Twister
Watchmen
X-men Days of Future Past

Of course it has it's advantages. I'm just stubborn. :P
Everyone has their preferences and mine consists of reading physical books. ;)

I completely understand. I've been a book lover and collector for decades. And although I now embrace digital reading, I still have a small stable of authors whom I collect in hardcover. I think, though, that my paperback buying days are over. For one thing, we don't have the room for them (hell, I don't really have room for my hardcovers, but I stubbornly refuse to stop buying those).

By the time Bluray became popular I had pretty much abandoned all forms of disk based media and switched to digital distribution for all media (games, movies, tv shows, etc.) so I've never owned a Bluray player or any Bluray disks and am kind of glad because all the DVDs and CDs accumulated over the years make a huge mess, didn't want to continue that trend. ;) So basically... zero.

Have you tried e-ink screens?

No, but their technology looks interesting...

Completely unlike reading on an LCD screen.
That's why I love my old non-Fire Kindle.

As far as I know, cinavia ships with all bluray players, it uses a watermark to detect whether or not the initial recording was meant to be broadcast in a particular environment, cinema etc and blocks it accordingly if the player detects a difference.

I have not experimented with PC blu-ray players but was considering using them for backup purposes.

I just hope Final Approach gets a release on bluray, one of the first ever films to boast digital sound and it has never even made DVD!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Approach_%281991_film%29

We've got two:

A DVD/Blu-Ray combo of The Lorax my son got for Christmas and Fight Club that an exchange student left at our house.

I don't have a Blu-Ray player of any sort, so I can't actually watch them.

1000+ DVDs, 500+ BluRays. Yikes.
Netflix is great and all, but the picture quality just isn't there yet for my favorite movies, never mind the selection is kinda wonky sometimes.

over 900 dvds and 700 blurays

I spent the summer converting my br collection to mp4 / mkv files to play on my wd tv live from a 5 tb hdd

Same visial quality,reduced audio quality in a handy digital format, no annoying intros or copyright warnings plus i dont need to leave the sofa to swap movies.

If blurays go the same as dvd then 1080p will be a waste when 4k format arrives or goes main stream, then the process starts all over again