Very disappointing that Match Group, being effectively a monopoly, doesn’t give us the one benefit we would get from it being a monopoly: industry-wide bans.
Normally, you’d need a whole bunch of companies to agree on a universal standard for communicating bans between each other and agreements to stick to it (similar to standards like USB) but here they could just do it. They even collect the information, they just don’t act on it.
So to sum up the data, it sounds like:
Verbatim is doing more than just keeping the formats on life support – it also unveiled new hardware at CES 2025. Its Slimline Blu-ray Writer lets you back up 4K video to Ultra HD Blu-ray and even comes bundled with antiquated Nero disc burning software.
This is the important part imo, given that LG and Sony both pulled out of the USB Blu-ray reader-writer market
https://www.verbatim-europe.com/en/blu-ray-writers/products/external-slimline-blu-ray-writer-43890
Means we’ll be able to rip Blu-ray’s into the future. At least, that’s what I hope. Need to check there are cracks for these writers.
EDIT: Won’t link to it here, but many Verbatim writers, UHD and otherwise, use Pioneer hardware internally and are therefore crackable.
I first heard about stuff like.this last year when I heard about Pig Butchering scams. Apparently this is sadly very common.
It may also be cheaper for the government as they wouldn’t need to spend so much on bureaucracy trying to figure out whether someone deserves money.
The councils pay landlords for 1 room in a 8+ room house.
In the area I’m thinking of, this costs £900 (or $1100) a month. For comparison,
I think the absurd rate being charged for abysmal conditions is partially rationalised by the fact that it’s paid to those landlords on a daily basis, but it’s obviously completely inefficient.
I don’t want to go into the horrors of being in a homeless shelter, but it would be better for everyone involved if housing was more accessible.
I know someone who is homeless and sheltering them (in shit conditions) is costing the local council almost twice as much per month as just giving them an apartment.
Janet Petro—the first woman to hold the position since its founding 67 years ago—wrote that diversity programs “divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination,”
In 2021, when she was the director of Kennedy Space Center, she spoke at length in an interview about the value of diversity, saying “our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility has been paramount to mission success.”
The turnaround is giving me whiplash.
There’s no begrudging following of the rules, it’s wholeheartedly embracing the new regime.
Thanks for the update (OP and publisher). It wasn’t clear from the previous posts given the ambiguous language.
What do you mean by “Citrons” that just means lemon in French and I’ve never heard it used in English.
It might be permanently out of stock… cries
BP60NB10, though that may be different by region.
Also had just as much success, including with UHD BD, with the older BP50NB40.
I think we can close this issue as completed
I recently bought a second PC Blu-ray writer just in case this would happen. Lucky me. I should be good for the next 10 years.
Looks like they’re still available for now in the UK but at inflated prices sent from America
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B079LTC6ML
The above supports UHD and is easy to… adapt for legitimate ripping of your Blu-ray. For backup purposes of course.
I think Panasonic still make some too but I’ve used LG ones for years.
I can confirm this. I downloaded this meme on the 4th of July 2024.
According to TinEye it’s been around since at least early 2021 https://tineye.com/search/a84c356575501c518ea572dc7a81944bcef741cb?sort=crawl_date&order=asc&page=1
Like you say, it will just happen on the other side as I don’t normally hang them from a chain. I’d rather pick something that hangs nicely from the start.
Hey, no shame man.
They hear, but do they really listen?
We keep telling them our great ideas but all they do is put us on lists!