After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb

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• otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is truly disappointing. The end of a physical media era and nothing on the horizon to replace it.

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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

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    • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If there are no more discs to rip how will people get the movies and shows in the first place?

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    • endofline@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No, there was one next more “optical image” after Blue-rays. Archive Disc mainly used for backups in companies dealing with lots of images. Biggest one could take 2TB per disc, as much as tape drives. However, they didn’t get adoption and it has been discontinued. Sadly

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There is the Ultra HD Blu-ray. The problem is that not enough people are buying it.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I wish there was an easy answer. However, I can’t think of one.

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  • kemsat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    SD cards & microSD cards are still an option

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    • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Flash memory cells reset over time if not powered, often faster than disks rot.

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• TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is probably about recordable BD-R’s, this doesn’t affect Blu-ray movies.

  At least, I hope not…

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  • Dirk@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    this doesn’t affect Blu-ray movies.

    Yet.

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  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Article says it started as removing BD-R but 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.

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    • TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Didn’t Sony recently take over Blu-ray production for Disney? And don’t they also have Blu-ray titles scheduled for release in the next few months? This doesn’t make sense to me.

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Even regular Blu-Rays are better quality than streaming.

  4K-blurays are the definitive way to see movies at home.

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  • Internetexplorer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are they that much better?

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    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Netflix 4K has a bitrate topping out around 16 Mbps (and often lower), Blu-ray 4K is something like 140 Mbps. Streaming services compress the hell out of video to save bandwidth.

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    • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you have a good enough tv then it’s an extremely noticeable difference. Especially in big budget movies like Dune.

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I find the easiest way to spot the quality difference is a dark scene. On streaming look at the dark areas. You’ll likely see bands and patches of different levels of black if you pay attention.

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• JuanPosadas@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I survived the DVD-Blueray era, having successfully never bought a DVD or Blu-ray player, movie disc’s, etc… Long live piracy.

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  • Aphelion@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But many of the releases you’ve pirated were ripped from the Bluray.

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    • bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Fair enough, but I get what he is saying. I also never owned a DVD or BluRay player because of piracy. Yet, of course it sucks that physical media will disappear and with it all semblance of regulated quality.

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    • JuanPosadas@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And now they will be ripped off streaming services.

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• twice_hatch@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  welp 🏴‍☠️

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• Godnroc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Sell” and “digital format” are not something that media companies like. More like long term rent on very specific locked down hardware and software.

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    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “Best we can do is an overpackaged, encrypted, read-only 32gb microSD for $49.99. It requires a dedicated proprietary media player and if you’re lucky, it won’t fail in a year.”

      “Why won’t anyone buy our movies :(”

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s what happened with music eventually, but so far I have not seen that with mainstream video releases, only some independent things

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    • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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