LG is officially putting the kibosh on any further production of its Blu-ray players, adding to the growing sense that we're witnessing a slow and unfortunate end to physical media as we know it.

UHD Blu-ray is a separate format from standard Blu-ray, as the former has a maximum resolution of 3840x2160 pixels (4K). Blu-ray is 1920x1080 (FHD) instead. The UBK80 and UBK90 UHD Blu-ray players ...

For all our budget-restricted readers, the LG BP175 is one of the best no-frills Blu-ray players on the market, especially if you don't mind the fact that you won't be getting any kind of 4K playback.

It came as a major blow, and a sign of the changing times for optical media. Samsung followed suit in 2019, leaving LG, Sony, and Panasonic as the only major consumer electronics companies producing ...