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

    • 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.