I think it's hilarious that Sony was so scared of Bluray failing and becoming another Betamax that they basically bought out any future from under HD-DVD which probably would have been more successful (like VHS).
In the end, streaming won the day and Blurays are already a thing of the past.
To be clear, the first Blurays were coming out in June 2006, Netflix began internet streaming in January 2007, barely six months later.
Whoopsie doodles Sony you fucking idiots.
Blurays are still way better than streaming though, especially the UHD ones. Bitrate is always way higher and the audio is noticeably crisper in my opinion.
I still regularly buy Blu rays, but it has to be for a specific kind of film or one of my favourites.
Betas outlived VHSs by several years. It wasn’t Betas that caused Sony to act like that with BluRays, it was DATs.
Are you talking about Betamax, ATRAC3, MemoryStick, Video8, Digital8, UMD, MiniDisc or BluRay?
all of the above plus DVD+R, Betacam, and probably others im forgetting
Bluray rips are the best, sadly it consumes too much bandwith and energy.
Easy. Just rip each blu-ray to its own hard drive. It makes filing easier too.
Or don't rip and just use the damn disk.
As an incurable optimist, I look forward to the day digitally licensed media goes under, and analog media makes its grand return
You wouldn't download... a vinyl record...
Desperately recreating the last shitstorm that happened to go their way.
Kinda worked for Blu-Ray copying VHS vs Betamax, did not work for PS3 copying PS1/PS2 vs everything else.
