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Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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We are contacting you regarding a past Prime Video purchase(s). The below content is no longer playable on Prime Video.

In an effort to compensate you for the inconvenience, we have applied a £5.99 Amazon Gift Card to your account. The Gift Card amount is equal to the amount you paid for the Prime Video purchase(s). To apologize for the inconvenience, we've also added an Amazon Gift Certificate of £5 to your account. Your Gift Card balance will be automatically applied to your next eligible order. You can view your balance and usage history in Your Account here:

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[–] 43 points 2 years ago (23 children)

Is this a shock? If you want to own your media you need to have the raw video. This can be though getting DRM-free media or buying DVDs and blurays. (Be careful of bluray has they are infected with DRM)

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Speaking of, would anyone happen to know where one may buy digital movies/tv shows without DRM? Up to now I've opted to simply buy DVDs/blurays and rip them, but if there's a more straightforward digital option without DRM, I'd be all for that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    get an MakeMKV compatible BluRay drive and you're golden, no need to worry about any crap BluRay DRM with it (at least to my knowledge)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Well you are just passing the responsibility to makemkv. If only I could figure out how to buy a license

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    FYI: Blurays get their decoding key off the internet. This is why all bluray players were bundled with Netflix and the like to entice you to hookup the player to the internet.

    Don't believe me? Get a new bluray player, don't connect it to the internet and try to play your discs.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    This just simply isn't accurate. There are often extra features that require an internet connection. And there are also some blu-ray movies that might require some form of internet connection to watch but the vast majority of consumer blu ray movies require no internet connection to watch them.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I've never owned a dedicated Blu-ray player but I've been watching them on my Xbox for years and this got me curious so I disconnected it from the Internet and grabbed a few discs to test.

    American History X, Mad Max Fury Road, and John Wick 3 with Blu-ray package release dates of 2009, 2015, and 2020, respectively. All three Blu-rays play just fine with no Internet connection. Unfortunately I don't have anything newer to see if this is a more recent change.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Back when I actually used a Blu-Ray player, it did take an update to play certain discs.

    I don't bother with them anymore. DVD is sufficient quality and rips to files easily for low-profile additions to my library

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    DVD is sufficient quality

    Delusional. Also DVD has region locks as well.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    It really is. I have a ton of movies even lower res than DVD, like 480x272 (because way back in 2008 I wanted to be able to play them on my PSP which couldn't handle anything bigger...) and they're perfectly watchable. But of course I grew up on broadcast TV and VHS, it's all uphill from there.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Yeah. Literally just watched "The Terminator" - which I legally bought on DVD and ripped - on a 65" OLED TV streamed from my Plex instance and it was perfectly fine. I do watch higher-res stuff but honestly at couch-distance DVD quality is enough.

    As for region locks, my ripping software and drive couldn't give two shits about that.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I've never hooked a bluray player to the internet. The last time I had a bluray player bluray was new and the player only supported a physical connection. I had to connect it to the internet to update it before it would play media.

    Now I just use the bluray reader in my server/computer to rip the media to jellyfin

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