Basically just the title. With DVDs getting tossed to the wind it made me wonder when will blu-rays go? I’m gonna miss bloopers and extra scenes

Edit: A bit confused but the general consensus is that in some areas BRs have already began to be phased out while in others they’re just trucking along perfectly fine. It’ll be that way until they stop being profitable to the studios who make them. Is that correct? I don’t think the 8k argument is valid imo since that’s really niche currently.

  • @taladar@sh.itjust.works
    6•9 months ago

    Apart from the “advantage” for the vendor in copy protection, where do physical, unchangeable media make sense? Particularly in terms of long-term use of the data on there. That basically ties the lifetime of the data to the lifetime of the physical object and also prevents backups.

    • haui
      3•9 months ago

      I‘m not sure I understand you correctly. Unchangeable media has several upsides:

      • no virus or person without physical access can corrupt or destroy the data
      • even if inserted, nothing can change it
      • physical media can still be copied and backed up by any and all other means

      I do accept that without programs to bypass copy protection, commercial movie discs are kind of a problem. Still, I dont see a problem of using burned discs as a long term storage device.

      • @taladar@sh.itjust.works
        4•9 months ago

        Okay, we might have been talking about different things. I am basically saying formats like video DVD, BluRay,… have no advantage over the same medium with a file on there that you can easily copy to a new one if necessary. Linking the format of the content to the medium itself is a bad idea.

        • haui
          2•9 months ago

          Yes. I fully agree and I meant storing files on blu ray disks but I probably failed to say so directly.

        • FfaerieOxide
          1•9 months ago

          You can sell a DVD. You can buy a DVD.

          A DVD remains the content that it is after a file may have been deleted for more space, enabling people to discover that content in the future.