[wmsmith]

Honestly, stories like this (and similar when streaming services change catalogs) is why I've gone back to DVDs. Nobody has knocked on my door (yet) to get those back.

Han Shot first! I had to find an old VHS to see this with my own eyes.

[al_borland]

Same here. I went out and bought an external optical drive so I can rip my own music/movies off optical media. I don’t like what the future is looking like.

[petee]

I've been doing the same; the UHD rescans of classics like 2001 and Casablanca look fantastic. But now I'm even considering keeping my dad's old Betamax collection with the state of things, movies disappear from existence now...

Btw, Panasonic actually makes a UHD player that doesn't include 'apps' and only has ethernet for updates and local streaming; hope restored!

[xena]

If it has ethernet for updates, they can add cancer at any moment.

[petee]

You could disable updates, as well as just not plugging it in.

I appreciate the possibility of updates since most things I own that can't be updated have odd bugs that drive me crazy.

[fnimick]

FYI, blu-ray discs include executable code to, among other things, update the banlist of encryption keys on your player when you try to play a new movie. Even if you never plug your player in, there's still the very real possibility that putting in a new disc will update your player such that your old discs no longer work due to a key revocation.

[petee]

Do you know if UHD implemented something similar? Its not the same tech, though doesn't mean they couldn't have added it.

If it is at that point, then the only solution is VHS and rips, short of preventing revocation within a bluray player