On Reddit we have r/dvdcollection, r/boutiquebluray, r/4kbluray, r/steelbook, r/vhs, etc but let's start simply with a community to cover all the forms of home video collecting.
So, do you feel nostalgic for a format? Are you looking forward to a release? Heard any exciting news? Want to show us your shelves? Then post away.
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Maybe we don't measure things in terms of a 30-year-old format?
A Blu-ray is 25-66 GB, and an Ultra HD Blu-ray is 50-100 GB. In other words, this is around 1500 4K movies. Still an incredible achievement. Kryptonian memory crystals are getting closer and closer to reality.
Actually, I guess they already invented those.
This is a cool concept and all for very large portable storage... But for media I think self-hosted streaming would be much more effective, or locally playing it on a desktop for whatever future media that can't be streamed well. Can't see a use for portable storage this big yet... But as soon as it fits in a smartphone-sized personal device we've got something that can support future media types with unfathomably large data requirements (portable "full-dive" vr like the matrix, AR, retina-resolution visuals etc).
I would personally be thrilled to use this for backups. I only have ~20tb of data on my NAS currently. A couple of these discs every month or two would work out well for me.
Definitely increases the likelihood of conforming to the 3-2-1 dealio
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There are datahoarders with way more storage space than me. My NAS is set up with 4 16tb drives in what is basically raid 10.
Why Jon Waters tho?
Ah now we spec storage space in movies, because obviously they are all the same size. When your unit is 10x worse than bananas you know you fucked up.
Greetings from someone that owns a 1 TB micro SD card. At 300 MB per movie that are 3'500 movies in this tiny, universal package. Or 20 super high res movies at 20 GB.
What year is this