[HN Gopher] After 18 years, Sony's Blu-ray media production draw...
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After 18 years, Sony's Blu-ray media production draws to a close
Author : rbanffy
Score : 32 points
Date : 2025-01-23 17:41 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| netrap wrote:
| Kind of sad.. not unexpected considering their previous
| announcement. Ritek and CMC still make BD-R and there are others
| making pressed BD's. This is definitely the end for MiniDisc
| production though!
| thomassmith65 wrote:
| Writable Blueray discs secretly belong in the highest tier of
| important consumer technologies.
|
| No other widely available technology is really suitable for
| archival digital storage.
|
| Most data today will be lost by the end of the century. Most
| data stored on the kind of archival Bluray discs found at your
| local office supply store (eg: M-disc) will be intact.
|
| Not only that, but Bluray was widespread enough that, in the
| year 2100, it will be possible - though perhaps take moderate
| effort - to track down a device or business that can read it.
| jickes wrote:
| This is so sad. We will inevitably 'own nothing and be happy'
| when it comes to media. At least I can still buy physical games
| for now.
| Yeul wrote:
| I grew up during the golden age of digital piracy. But people
| under the age of 25 have no idea how any of that stuff works.
| mystified5016 wrote:
| My huband is pretty tech illiterate. I set up a serv.arr
| ecosystem routed through a VPN and showed him how to add a
| search for a movie he wants.
|
| Man, he has been sailing harder than I ever did in my youth.
| The majority of our torrent traffic is now his requests and
| not mine.
|
| Sure he doesn't grok how it works other than some allusions
| to limewire, but that doesn't really matter.
|
| If you have an experienced sailor behind you, piracy is now
| orders of magnitude easier than paying for seventeen
| streaming services. You don't have to know or care which
| service has your show this week, you punch in the name and
| some time later a file appears in jellyfin. He's even started
| loading up searches before the media is released. Servarr
| will catch it when it's uploaded and we'll get a pleasant
| surprise one day when it appears in jellyfin.
|
| Servarr is a total game changer.
| wanderingcobb wrote:
| Biggest losers are libraries and millions of citizens relying on
| them for content. Many are adding online streaming services, but
| licensing is significantly more than physical media.
| mistrial9 wrote:
| BluRay Dual layer support links, anyone?
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| ...wait, so then who is producing the discs for PS5 games?
| Someone other than Sony?
| bcraven wrote:
| I understand there is version of the ps5 without a disc drive.
|
| Perhaps they have enough stock to last to a fully disc-less
| ps6.
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| But there are still new games coming out! How do they press
| those? You can't do that ahead of time, you need the gold
| master build.
| linotype wrote:
| All versions of the PS5 support digital download. They'll
| just release them digitally. Discs now are mostly
| collectors items anyway, day 1 patches (in the 10s of GB)
| have made them mostly useless.
| SllX wrote:
| For additional context, I found a list of Blu-ray Disc
| manufacturers here: https://blu-raydisc.info/licensee-
| list/discmanuid-licenseeli...
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