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How long til Blu-rays get phased out (lemmy.today)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically just the title. With DVDs getting tossed to the wind it made me wonder when will blu-rays go? I'm gonna miss bloopers and extra scenes

Edit: A bit confused but the general consensus is that in some areas BRs have already began to be phased out while in others they're just trucking along perfectly fine. It'll be that way until they stop being profitable to the studios who make them. Is that correct? I don't think the 8k argument is valid imo since that's really niche currently.

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[–] brandon 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Vinyl does have significant limitations in what sound it can produce, especially in terms of dynamic range. Wikipedia has a good breakdown of analog vs digital recording.

While digital is not perfect, it’s generally better in every regard that humans can physically perceive. That said, people will always romanticize physical things of the past, be it confirmation bias, survivorship bias of good examples, or just enjoying the ritual of physical interacting with a thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well sure... But I can still speak a sentence nobody has ever uttered into a recording device, press that into tiny grooves on a plastic disc, and then play back a pretty damn faithful reproduction of the thing I said.

You seem to think that I was supporting a return to vinyl or something, but I did no such thing. I'm well aware that the technology has gotten better by orders of magnitude.

I understand there's obviously limitations, but just the basic concept is mind blowing to me.