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Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. (mainichi.jp)

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[–] [email protected] 178 points 4 months ago (19 children)

Welp... There goes physical media...

[–] [email protected] 109 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yep, I'm sure it'll be gone Verbatim.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago

Take your upvote

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Its an old code but it checks out 😅

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It’s just one company, it’s not all the Blu-ray production stopping. I think the last time I bought any Sony recordable media was CD-Rs for my MP3 CD player in the mid 00s.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Sony owns the blu-ray format. I'm worried.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They do not own it, they did co-develop it. They’ve never owned it outright.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I always preferred the rips fork Blu rays though. They had the highest quality video and audio and stuff. This sucks so much =(

EDIT: I just read someone else's comment that although they developed it they don't own it outright so that makes me feel a little better that hopefully other people can still make them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (8 children)

How do SSDs and HDDs compare to optical disks in terms of stability in storage? SSD bits can lose charge over time until a lot of 1s read as 0s, right?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

SSDs are pretty pricey for video. I use HDDs, mirrored. For some uses I put a SSD caching layer on top to speed up frequent R/W. Using only LVM, no fancy RAID hardware or anything.

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 4 months ago (13 children)

the whole point is to stop you from owning physical media so they can arbitrarily raise prices by creating artificial cause and demand through artificial scarcity.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (12 children)

anyone remember when the argument for digital goods was " We wont have to waste money on boxes, printing, media, storage, or shipping! So your goods will be cheaper than ever, and everyone will still get a more profitable cut!"

Pepperidge farm Remembers, because Pepperidge farm called bullshit on the argument back at the very start, and said they would get rid of physical media, not lower prices, and that we would lose ownership of our purchases... and the internet poopoo'd me to hell in back calling me paranoid and stupid for it.

and look where we are.

and its so goddamn fucked up I don't even get a single molecule of serotonin from being right about it.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (12 children)

That makes this even more depressing. Sailing the high seas is the life for me.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Jokes on Sony, they stopped getting my money years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago (1 children)

After spending all that money and effort to kill HDDVD. 😆

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That was 15 years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago

I’ll be sure to buy extras, since it’s clear this is yet another push towards the consumer market not deserving to own their media.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Apparently "recordable media" here means the kind you can record on at home, e.g. CD-R, DVD-R.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Right as I'm getting into minidisc too

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Damn. I was just starting to rebuild my physical catalog so I could get away from streaming.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

Movies are not sold on recordable media, they are sold on pressed discs. There are a lot more manufacturers than just Sony too.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Keep doing it. Especially niche titles.

You think I can find tv shows like greg the bunny, or clerks the animated series? And then TV shows start retroactively saying whats ok to show and whats not. Then pulling the episodes from streaming.

Or maybe the rights run out, and no other streaming picks it up.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

thin laptops and LED Disco Cases killed CD-readers anyways. it's a shame to loose a cheap way of making media archives, but it is what it is.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Keep in mind that though this is a blow to the industry, it's not like optical media is just yet dead. Hell, there are still new releases to DVDs coming out today.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Downgrading from blu-ray to dvd is extremely grim.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

So that they can fully control the fate of digital media for "normal" people. Better not lapse on that subscription or fail to upgrade to the latest Sony TV... "Your" media library might not like that, be a shame if you lost access to those pretty titles you love..

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (9 children)

i can't even remember the last time i saw an optical disc. it must be several years.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Found a small part of the problem.

Physical media is dying because the majority of people think just as short sighted as businesses do. Businesses think in short term thoughts like quarters. They do so because investers want immediate return.

But why would you as a person not want physical media??? I literally bought a George Carlin dvd of one of his HBO specials 2 days ago. It was traded into a local resale shop as "used". It was brand new, because even though the plastic wrap was gone, the adhesive label at the top was still unbroken. Brand new dvd. $3.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most people don't know how to switch between inputs on their TVs or have gotten rid of their DVD or BluRay players at this point.

They're using the built in streaming apps or they've plugged a Roku in where the cable box used to go.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

dont know why youre being downvoted, this is completely true. The majority of people favour the convenience that streaming has represented, and TVs have been designed to turn on showing a shiny netflix icon instead of "Composite II" for like a decade now.

Yes, while consumers have been sold a double-edged sword/lie - the streaming companies were obviously never going to market their platforms by saying "one downside of streaming is we can take away content whenever we like".

The average person with a bluray collection is going to be much more aware of the pros and cons of the formats - I'd be willing to guess most peoples family "collections" are still on DVD.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

For me, physical media takes up more space. It's a good thing and a bad thing. It takes up more space which means I need to have more space, but it's also cool having the boxes and box art etc. Ultimately, as long as I own my media and it's physically accessible to me (like located on my hard drive), then I am happy with that ownership and don't have to worry about it being taken away from me. Also, physical media can be damaged which means it's unusable entirely. With a proper RAID setup and backups, digital media can outlast physical media.