Sony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitable

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honestly surprised, i thought blu-ray m-disc was moderately popular

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  • Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d never even heard of it, I feel like cheap large flash drives and streaming killed the main use cases for these.

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    • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i think that’s it. We used to use CD-Rs and DVD-Rs to record playlists and movies, respectively. Data hoarders today will prefer multi-hard drive servers over burning everything to Bluray, and for one-time file transfers, we have flash drives and online file shares. I just can’t think of a use case for BR-R that isn’t better served by a different technology.

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    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      M-disc is for long term storage, which flash and hard drives are not suitable for.

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    • eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I believe Blurays are still a very good medium for long term data storage, like a cold offsite backup.

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  • Digital_man@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not as profitable as charging someone licensing fees ?

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• MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Welp, so only 🏴‍☠️ it is.

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  • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    fortunately, this change does not affect Bluray movies you can buy at the store. This is only about recordable Bluray drives, which basically no one uses on a consumer level.

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    • TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure some people use them for backups.

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    • Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are dozens of us!

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• Truck_kun@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So patents last 15-20 years… regular Blu-ray patent has already expired I guess, but Ultra HD Blu-ray is the current patent, releasing in 2015… so another 6 to 11 years before consumers can do whatever they want with the technology.

  Would be outdated by then by the next new thing though.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That is if there is still an optical drive market in the future.

    Sony never made a big deal of how the PS5 can play Ultra HD disks the way they did with DVD and Blu-ray. Ultra HD sales seem a lot smaller than previous renditions. You also have a lot of content being kept behind the streaming paywall rather than getting released.

    I don’t think there will be a large enough market to support 8K, backed up by the fact that a specification has been written but no one wants to go forward with making the disks and drives.

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    • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And my TV is still a cheap full HD (2K) screen from 2011, so I’ve got no reason to buy media in higher quality

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• todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This only applies to Sony products, right?

  I use Buffalo drives and Optical Quantum BD-Rs for archiving. It doesn’t sound like that will be affected.

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• chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just hope that Verbatim will not stop producing its M-Discs following the Sony trend

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• eveninghere@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Optical discs were sold to companies as a near-eternal solution. And they do this to businesses…

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