Welp... There goes physical media...
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2024
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Yep, I'm sure it'll be gone Verbatim.
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Its an old code but it checks out 😅
It’s just one company, it’s not all the Blu-ray production stopping. I think the last time I bought any Sony recordable media was CD-Rs for my MP3 CD player in the mid 00s.
Sony owns the blu-ray format. I'm worried.
They do not own it, they did co-develop it. They’ve never owned it outright.
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I always preferred the rips fork Blu rays though. They had the highest quality video and audio and stuff. This sucks so much =(
EDIT: I just read someone else's comment that although they developed it they don't own it outright so that makes me feel a little better that hopefully other people can still make them.
How do SSDs and HDDs compare to optical disks in terms of stability in storage? SSD bits can lose charge over time until a lot of 1s read as 0s, right?
SSDs are pretty pricey for video. I use HDDs, mirrored. For some uses I put a SSD caching layer on top to speed up frequent R/W. Using only LVM, no fancy RAID hardware or anything.
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the whole point is to stop you from owning physical media so they can arbitrarily raise prices by creating artificial cause and demand through artificial scarcity.
anyone remember when the argument for digital goods was " We wont have to waste money on boxes, printing, media, storage, or shipping! So your goods will be cheaper than ever, and everyone will still get a more profitable cut!"
Pepperidge farm Remembers, because Pepperidge farm called bullshit on the argument back at the very start, and said they would get rid of physical media, not lower prices, and that we would lose ownership of our purchases... and the internet poopoo'd me to hell in back calling me paranoid and stupid for it.
and look where we are.
and its so goddamn fucked up I don't even get a single molecule of serotonin from being right about it.
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That makes this even more depressing. Sailing the high seas is the life for me.
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Jokes on Sony, they stopped getting my money years ago.
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After spending all that money and effort to kill HDDVD. 😆
I’ll be sure to buy extras, since it’s clear this is yet another push towards the consumer market not deserving to own their media.
Apparently "recordable media" here means the kind you can record on at home, e.g. CD-R, DVD-R.
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Damn. I was just starting to rebuild my physical catalog so I could get away from streaming.
Movies are not sold on recordable media, they are sold on pressed discs. There are a lot more manufacturers than just Sony too.
Keep doing it. Especially niche titles.
You think I can find tv shows like greg the bunny, or clerks the animated series? And then TV shows start retroactively saying whats ok to show and whats not. Then pulling the episodes from streaming.
Or maybe the rights run out, and no other streaming picks it up.
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thin laptops and LED Disco Cases killed CD-readers anyways. it's a shame to loose a cheap way of making media archives, but it is what it is.
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Keep in mind that though this is a blow to the industry, it's not like optical media is just yet dead. Hell, there are still new releases to DVDs coming out today.
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So that they can fully control the fate of digital media for "normal" people. Better not lapse on that subscription or fail to upgrade to the latest Sony TV... "Your" media library might not like that, be a shame if you lost access to those pretty titles you love..
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