• @Chronographs@lemmy.zip
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      223 months ago

      I’d never even heard of it, I feel like cheap large flash drives and streaming killed the main use cases for these.

      • coyotino [he/him]OP
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        203 months ago

        i think that’s it. We used to use CD-Rs and DVD-Rs to record playlists and movies, respectively. Data hoarders today will prefer multi-hard drive servers over burning everything to Bluray, and for one-time file transfers, we have flash drives and online file shares. I just can’t think of a use case for BR-R that isn’t better served by a different technology.

            • Natanael
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              13 months ago

              Tapes themselves are cheaper, but the drive (and potentially operating cost?) can definitely be higher for the industrial stuff

              • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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                13 months ago

                Presumably when we’re talking off-site backups we’re talking about a separate company sitting somewhere in an abandoned nuclear bunker which can justify the price of a tape drive or twenty.

          • FuzzyRedPanda
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            33 months ago

            When the tape drive fails and eats your tape in the process, you better hope you have a second backup or you’ll be crying salty salty tears.

            I worked in the service center for a tape-drive manufacturer and I would routinely see the drives we got back for repair. They were often taken apart by the customer in a frantic and desperate attempt to get their cassette out. The cassette was almost always still in there though, with multiple feet of tape snagged and wound around everything.

    • @Digital_man
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      Not as profitable as charging someone licensing fees ?

    • coyotino [he/him]OP
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      343 months ago

      fortunately, this change does not affect Bluray movies you can buy at the store. This is only about recordable Bluray drives, which basically no one uses on a consumer level.

  • @Truck_kun@beehaw.org
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    63 months ago

    So patents last 15-20 years… regular Blu-ray patent has already expired I guess, but Ultra HD Blu-ray is the current patent, releasing in 2015… so another 6 to 11 years before consumers can do whatever they want with the technology.

    Would be outdated by then by the next new thing though.

    • HobbitFoot
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      73 months ago

      That is if there is still an optical drive market in the future.

      Sony never made a big deal of how the PS5 can play Ultra HD disks the way they did with DVD and Blu-ray. Ultra HD sales seem a lot smaller than previous renditions. You also have a lot of content being kept behind the streaming paywall rather than getting released.

      I don’t think there will be a large enough market to support 8K, backed up by the fact that a specification has been written but no one wants to go forward with making the disks and drives.

      • Natanael
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        33 months ago

        And my TV is still a cheap full HD (2K) screen from 2011, so I’ve got no reason to buy media in higher quality

            • Okay, but, 4k has literally 4 times the number of pixels that 1080P does, 3840 horizontal(“4k”?) versus 1920(“2k”?), and 2160 versus 1080 vertical. We are not so far from breaking the “1000pixels” interpretation completely; “13k” would be 12,480 pixels wide.

              Seems to me that marketers are trying to conflate “k” and Megapixels, but if we started using Megapixels for Displays, the side-by-side numbers would look truely pathetic(versus what “seems common/attainable”, not what’s “percievable”.

                • I mean, I agree its already broken, but proponents of this “it’s x thousand pixels wide!” non-sense will point out that at least it rounds up to that number, so I opted to point of the vaule at whict that excuse, too, breaks down. 4k has 4 times(2x2) the pixels as 1080P, and 8k has, well shit, 16 times(4x4) the pixels as 1080P. Someone shit the bed with this non-sense.

                  Apparently the “official” standard defines nothing beyond 8k. Go figure.

  • Todd Bonzalez
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    43 months ago

    This only applies to Sony products, right?

    I use Buffalo drives and Optical Quantum BD-Rs for archiving. It doesn’t sound like that will be affected.

  • Chemical Wonka
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    33 months ago

    I just hope that Verbatim will not stop producing its M-Discs following the Sony trend

  • @eveninghere@beehaw.org
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    Optical discs were sold to businesses as a near-eternal solution. And then they do this… Are they serious?