Years ago, for a while I had an external Blu-Ray drive, but I’ve never seen an actual Blu-Ray disc in my life.
And this is coming from a nerd that’s repaired thousands of electronic devices.
Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again
pelotron@midwest.social 3 months ago
bout to go buy an mf blu-ray
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You worked for poor people. Every single high end media room I’ve seen (3 lol) has been powered via blue ray. People with nice TVs have known streaming is garbage for years now.
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I worked for hotel owners with their own high tech theater upstairs. They had everything, it was wicked cool!
They had everything, except Blu-Ray. They had DVDs and streaming.
HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 months ago
we always got the blue ray that came with a dvd and itunes. it was a bit more but was nice for the redundancy.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 months ago
It just looks like a DVD, with a slightly purple tint. All Blu-Rays are is DVDs with denser data encoding.
You probably have had one or two and not known about it, most games consoles use blu-rays now as well.
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m very familiar with the technology, the discs indeed are a slightly different color, and the drives have an entirely separate extra lens and laser assembly to read them.
And BTW, DVD-R is purple.
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Ive been buying anything I really like on disc. Lots of movies I don’t really care about and can stream, but things I’ve really enjoyed I pick up on bluray.