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

  • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
    232·
    10 months ago

    They are coming back like vinyl. Zoomers are realizing streaming plarforms can pull the plug

    • Saigonauticon@voltage.vnEnglish
      71·
      10 months ago

      It occurs to me that I could totally put a short movie on a vinyl record. It would display “buffering” for quite a while though.

      • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        The concept of vinyl still blows my mind… The fact that you can recreate every possible combination of sounds and etch it in grooves on a thin piece of plastic, then you can drag a needle across those grooves to hear the sound combinations again…

        How does a person even create something like that? It’s mind blowing.

        • brandon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Vinyl does have significant limitations in what sound it can produce, especially in terms of dynamic range. Wikipedia has a good breakdown of analog vs digital recording.

          While digital is not perfect, it’s generally better in every regard that humans can physically perceive. That said, people will always romanticize physical things of the past, be it confirmation bias, survivorship bias of good examples, or just enjoying the ritual of physical interacting with a thing.

        • Saigonauticon@voltage.vnEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          I think it was done with wax cylinders first, somewhat earlier! So at least for vinyl, there was strong technological precedent.

          In the early days, it was quite a simple device! Sort of a cone to focus sound waves, with a membrane at the end attached to an engraver that carves wax. I bet it was quite hard to make those mechanical systems reliable, but I can sort of see how someone goes from “sound is a pressure wave in air” to that device!