anybody here burn their own Blu-Ray?

[boogers]

i made a thread before but @YaThreadTrashB! .. you know how it goes

seriously, is anyone out there burning Blu-Ray bootlegs? im honestly out of the loop and am clueless about the modern optical media game. i copped a Blu-Ray player for pretty cheap, and i wanted to grab a spindle of BD-Rs, but theyre pretty damn expensive, and i dont wanna throw away 50 bucks for some shyt that wont play.

burning a DVD is one thing, but i know these players have all kinds of weird ass encryption.. my player has a damn ethernet port

personally i dont really care about quality, i care about data preservation. can you burn a shytload of 1080p mp4s to a 25gb Blu-Ray and have an entire show on one disk? thats what im after.. i would ask reddit but im banned and i dont feel like making a burner... thought i'd ask a 6-cert expert!

thanks for any potential advice, please dont make fun of me too hard. i really should know how to do this shyt.

 

[Elim Garak]

This is 2026. Wait I'll be back. I'm still trying to download these MP3s.

 

[boogers]

This is 2026. Wait I'll be back. I'm still trying to download these MP3s.

im being serious, lol.

i keep a couple *TB hard drives for my jellyfin server, but i'd love to burn them to disc so i can wipe those files off the drive and reclaim the space.

im cool with burning to DVD, but you can only fit 3-4 episodes per disc. with 25GB a disc, if the player can decode Matroska/MP4 directly, you could burn an entire series onto ONE disc. thats a crazy amount of storage.

again i dont care if you make fun of me, but this isnt a stupid endeavor.

 

[Monoblock]

Hold on let me close my Real Player and MP3 ripper program and close this book of CDs

 

[camroni]

If you're trying to do data preservation, isn't it easier and probably cheaper to just get some more HDDs? Plus, you have to get a drive for your PC and find the software to burn ISOs that can be played on a regular player. Buring Blu rays makes no sense in 2026.

 

[Ciggavelli]

Physical media is dead, but I understand the preservation angle. I preserve flac music. I have 16tb of hi-res lossless music, triple backed up. With streaming platforms changing songs post-release or removing albums altogether, I need to have downloaded local files. It's my most prized possession. I love music