How long til Blu-rays get phased out - eviltoast

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

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    541·
    10 months ago

    I foresee them making a comeback as more and more people realize that streaming services are terrible.

      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
        4·
        10 months ago

        Agree that video files burned on blu ray would be ideal :D

        Jokes aside: physical, unchangeable media do make sense imo.

        • taladar@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          10 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@lemmy.giftedmc.com
            21·
            10 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
              1·
              10 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@lemmy.giftedmc.com
                2·
                10 months ago

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

    • maxprime@lemmy.ml
      2·
      10 months ago

      But the people who release BRs are either the same people selling streaming subscriptions, or will be bought up by them. For example, Disney is no longer releasing BRs anymore.