[estebank]

The movie itself is generally encoded at a higher bitrate than what you can find in streaming or torrents.

The media includes bonus features that generally aren't available in streaming or torrents.

The media will not suddenly stop existing if some server breaks down, some company goes under or some contract expires.

The movie will not suddenly get "patched" with an AI-upscale or censored scene one day while watching it.

You can lend the media to someone else to watch without having to ask for permission to anyone else.

[saturn8601]

Technically blueray has a 'update mechanism' that newer films will require players to update to.

AVGN complained about it here: https://youtu.be/tetXKdi9U3c?t=400

[cj]

"To play this Blueray, you must renew your encryption key"

Is that really a thing?

[1bpp]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...

[account42]

Also, you can import blu-rays from other countries when streaming releases have geo restrictions.

[estebank]

Like DVD before it, Blu-ray includes region locking as a feature (but apparently ~70% of disks don't bother with it, notably Paramount and Universal don't). Non-locked disks are marked as ABC (A is the Americas and Asia, B is Europe/Africa/Aus/NZ, C is Russia/India/China).

[account42]

Libredrive says: "that's cute"