After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb
After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb
MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes will also be abandoned.
MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes will also be abandoned.
This is truly disappointing. The end of a physical media era and nothing on the horizon to replace it.
But this move to streaming libraries, where there is no ownership and the movies and shows you watch could simply disappear without warning, reminds us how fleeting life can be.
No, it reminds me our corporate overlords will continue to take away things that don’t make them a continuous stream of free money.
Jellyfin/Plex + Sonarr/Radarr + Usenet + HDDs/SSDs
HDDs/SSDs are a form of physical recordable media with FAR more capacity and speed than any optical medium
SD cards & microSD cards are still an option
Sure, for storage. I’m more concerned about first party sources for high quality rips. The only thing left will be streaming rips, which just don’t compare on a proper display, especially once HDR gets involved.
It’s like if they just stopped selling CDs and all you could find were YouTube rips anymore.
Flash memory cells reset over time if not powered, often faster than disks rot.
There is the Ultra HD Blu-ray. The problem is that not enough people are buying it.
I wish there was an easy answer. However, I can't think of one.
This is about recordable BD-R's, this doesn't affect Blu-ray movies.
At least, I hope not...
this doesn’t affect Blu-ray movies.
Yet.
Article says it started as removing BD-R and they'd keep operating for corporate customers (studios) but that appears to have collapsed quickly. I'm interpreting it as the end of Blu-ray production entirely.
Commercial sales have quickly become insufficient to sustain Sony’s optical media business.
Even regular Blu-Rays are better quality than streaming.
4K-blurays are the definitive way to see movies at home.
Are they that much better?
If you have a good enough tv then it’s an extremely noticeable difference. Especially in big budget movies like Dune.
welp 🏴☠️
I did a really quick search and a mechanical hard drive costs around 1$ for 50gb of storage while a blank Blu-ray was closer to 1$ for 25gb of storage. That would suggest a drive is more effective at storing data from a cost perspective, so there just needs to be a service that sells movies in a digital format.
"Sell" and "digital format" are not something that media companies like. More like long term rent on very specific locked down hardware and software.
It’s what happened with music eventually, but so far I have not seen that with mainstream video releases, only some independent things
No it didn't. I don't know if a single vendor aside from Bandcamp that will sell you the actual files, and let's be honest their catalogue is pathetic.