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

  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    8 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·
      8 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·
        8 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.