Comment on The future of Blu-ray is looking bleak (and that's a bad thing for everyone)
bob_lemon@feddit.org 2 months ago
Blu-Ray kind of shot itself in the foot by having an insanely restrictive copy protection (AAAC) applied, which made watching movies on a PC/Laptop all but impossible, especially offline (I traveled by train a lot in 2015)*. It was obviously broken fairly quickly, so they added BD+, which was also broken within 4 months.
It should be regarded as a cautionary tale against any form of copy pretention, but they sell the keys to the hardware suppliers, so I guess making the customer have a worse experience still paid off.
*No, paying PowerDVD a yearly ransom is not a valid solution
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Blu-ray won over HDDVD via payola. Then it dried up. This decline has been foreseen for a while, but I’m disappointed Phillips hasn’t been muttering about super-dense DVD or a similarly shiny-sounding format to keep a sales channel and sell new IP.