After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb
After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb
MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes will also be abandoned.
MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes will also be abandoned.
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This is truly disappointing. The end of a physical media era and nothing on the horizon to replace it.
But this move to streaming libraries, where there is no ownership and the movies and shows you watch could simply disappear without warning, reminds us how fleeting life can be.
No, it reminds me our corporate overlords will continue to take away things that don’t make them a continuous stream of free money.
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SD cards & microSD cards are still an option
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Sure, for storage. I’m more concerned about first party sources for high quality rips. The only thing left will be streaming rips, which just don’t compare on a proper display, especially once HDR gets involved.
It’s like if they just stopped selling CDs and all you could find were YouTube rips anymore.
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This is about recordable BD-R's, this doesn't affect Blu-ray movies.
At least, I hope not...
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this doesn’t affect Blu-ray movies.
Yet.
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I did a really quick search and a mechanical hard drive costs around 1$ for 50gb of storage while a blank Blu-ray was closer to 1$ for 25gb of storage. That would suggest a drive is more effective at storing data from a cost perspective, so there just needs to be a service that sells movies in a digital format.
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"Sell" and "digital format" are not something that media companies like. More like long term rent on very specific locked down hardware and software.
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"Best we can do is an overpackaged, encrypted, read-only microSD for $49.99. It requires a dedicated proprietary media player and if you're lucky, it won't fail in a year."
"Why won't anyone buy our movies :("
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I survived the DVD-Blueray era, having successfully never bought a DVD or Blu-ray player, movie disc's, etc.. Long live piracy.
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But many of the releases you've pirated were ripped from the Bluray.
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Fair enough, but I get what he is saying. I also never owned a DVD or BluRay player because of piracy. Yet, of course it sucks that physical media will disappear and with it all semblance of regulated quality.
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