Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again
echodot@feddit.uk 4 months agoIt 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 4 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.