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Sure, if you're looking for movies from the last 10 years, chances are you'll find it.

Samsung Galaxy Fold: A cheat sheet (TechRepublic)Įighteen thousand movies may sound like a lot.

Oh, make that four, with Disney launching its own streaming channel, with exclusive rights to Disney, Star Wars, and Marvel Cinematic Universe films, you'll probably want to subscribe to it as well. This means that to make sure you can stream the most popular recent movies, you need subscriptions to all three services. Even with all those titles there's little crossover between them and what's actually available changes at the beginning of every month. Amazon has the most with 12,764, followed by Netflix with 3,861, and Hulu with 1,646. On Amazon, Samsung had four of Amazon's 10 best-selling Blu-ray players including the most popular model.īesides, as ReelGood, a company, which tracks streaming services, recently observed Netflix and the like don't actually have that many movies in their libraries. Samsung had 37 percent of the market, followed by Sony at 31 percent and LG at 13 percent, according to market research firm NPD Group. It's not often that an industry's leading OEM quits, but that's what Samsung has done. Recently, Samsung told CNET that, " Samsung will no longer introduce new Blu-ray or 4K Blu-ray player models in the US market."Īlso: Data archiving for survivalists: Ready for that solar flare? Then, streaming came along and everything changed. They were set to dominate the video world. Within a few years, Samsung and other Blu-ray OEMs had defeated their rival HD DVD manufacturers. Over 10 years ago, Samsung released the first commercial Blu-ray video disc player. Samsung has powered-up its Smart TV experience with a 'One Remote' control and an upgraded voice recognition feature that will allow consumers to use smart features more smartly, says its development team.

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The #1 Blu-ray Player For Mac for $30 (50% off)(9to5toys.Samsung opts for smarter smart TV experience.

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If you plan on burning Blu-rays (fancy!), you’ll need some better software like Toast 11 ( $60) and a portable drive that will start around $65.

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For less than the price of an Apple SuperDrive, you can have all the functionality of a SuperDrive PLUS the ability to read and rip Blu-ray disks. The software easily allows you to play and rip Blu-rays, as well as stream to iOS devices. Luckily, StackSocial is currently offering a 50 percent discount on the best Mac Blu-ray software available, MacGo ( $29.99).

There are some hacks using VLC and the free MakeMKV, but they are kind of ‘hacky’. Apple has never made Blu-ray reading an option on the Mac, so you’ll need some software. Once you have a USB Blu-ray drive, you aren’t out of the woods yet.

These drives also read/write DVDs, so you still have just about all the functionality of Apple’s SuperDrive. We see a highly-rated Sony/NEC model for under $40, and of course Amazon has well-rated portable Blu-ray players starting at $44 but quality varies.

Portable USB 2.0 drives that carry enough current to power a Blu-ray player and enough speed to carry 4X Blu-ray reading are probably the best bet. We talked about inexpensive Blu-ray Mac options before. So, for those thinking of dropping $80 on a SuperDrive, we think we have a better option:

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But there are many nice Blu-ray titles out there, and iTunes’ compressed 1080p content still doesn’t come close the video and sound quality of Blu-ray. Steve Jobs viewed Blu-ray as a “ bag of hurt” from the “mafia,” and Apple would frankly rather you stick to the iTunes ecosystem for video watching.

The SuperDrive is an Apple-quality product and can be used as a boot drive for many Macs that need to be upgraded or repaired via DVD.īut perhaps we can get a little more for our $80?

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Some folks store archives, have software installers, backups, or have vast movie collection on DVD – and then there is Blu-ray…Īpple’s remedy is the DVD SuperDrive that costs $79 (well, $70/ $50 used if you know where to shop). With Apple having eliminated optical media from just about every product it makes, including the redesigned iMacs, Mac Minis, and Retina MacBook Pros, many readers will be considering whether they need to procure a separate external DVD reader for emergencies. Tl dr: Buy a $40 Portable USB Blu-ray/DVD-R drive and $30 Blu-ray player MacGo for $10 less than an Apple SuperDrive and you get to watch/rip Blu-ray movies as a bonus.