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

  • ExLisper@linux.community
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    10 months ago

    Why not just put the movies on a SD card? The price is similar and the card is smaller. That’s what games do now, right?

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      10 months ago

      Retention, or the lack thereof, when cold-stored.

      In term of SD or standard NAND, not even Nintendo does that. Nintendo builds Macronix XtraROM in their Game Card, which is some proprietary Flash memory with claimed 20 year cold storage retention. And they introduced the 64 GB version only after a lengthy delay, in 2020. So it seems that the (lack of) cold storage performance of standard NAND Flash is viewed by some in the industry as not ready for prime time. Macronix discussed it many years back in a DigiTimes article: https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120713PR201.html.

      And Sony and Microsoft are both still building Blu-ray-based consoles.