I've stop using bluray player for some time. Have the tech become more reliable nowadays?
I previously have 3 bluray players died on me, each around 2 years life span.

Yeah, I believe bluray disc is a dying tech format just like we no longer have disc for PC program installation, online streaming/downloading has already taken over, unfortunately not everyone has great broadband speed even in developed countries.

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As long as they actually "sell you the content", it's okay.

Nowadays the greedy businesses are moving towards "selling you the service", like in digital games consumer are buying the services, one day the game server can be shut down and the consumer will not be able to consume what they thought they have bought and owned. Nowadays songs are also sold as a service thru the like of Spotify if I'm not mistaken.

It's a clever way of making money and binding the consumer to their platform. Anyone who had bought such "service content" will unlikely jumped ship when one has thrown in considerable sum to the service provider and have big collection of online content in their personal account.