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.

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.

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 ...