Welp, so only 🏴☠️ it is.
fortunately, this change does not affect Bluray movies you can buy at the store. This is only about recordable Bluray drives, which basically no one uses on a consumer level.
There are dozens of us!
I’m pretty sure some people use them for backups.
I’m sure they do, but I feel like even on r/datahoarders, I only ever see people talk about masses of HDDs, tape drives, or cloud storage.
I just hope that Verbatim will not stop producing its M-Discs following the Sony trend
This only applies to Sony products, right?
I use Buffalo drives and Optical Quantum BD-Rs for archiving. It doesn’t sound like that will be affected.
So patents last 15-20 years… regular Blu-ray patent has already expired I guess, but Ultra HD Blu-ray is the current patent, releasing in 2015… so another 6 to 11 years before consumers can do whatever they want with the technology.
Would be outdated by then by the next new thing though.
That is if there is still an optical drive market in the future.
Sony never made a big deal of how the PS5 can play Ultra HD disks the way they did with DVD and Blu-ray. Ultra HD sales seem a lot smaller than previous renditions. You also have a lot of content being kept behind the streaming paywall rather than getting released.
I don’t think there will be a large enough market to support 8K, backed up by the fact that a specification has been written but no one wants to go forward with making the disks and drives.
And my TV is still a cheap full HD (2K) screen from 2011, so I’ve got no reason to buy media in higher quality
Full HD/1080P is 1K. If you meant better than 1080P though, then more power to you.
The number refers to the horizontal resolution. FHD is nearly 2K pixels wide, just as 4K resolutions are nearly 4K pixels wide, although FHD is the typical term for the resolution and QHD is more commonly called 2K instead than FHD
Optical discs were sold to businesses as a near-eternal solution. And then they do this… Are they serious?
Honestly surprised, i thought blu-ray m-disc was moderately popular
Not as profitable as charging someone licensing fees ?
I’d never even heard of it, I feel like cheap large flash drives and streaming killed the main use cases for these.
M-disc is for long term storage, which flash and hard drives are not suitable for.
I believe Blurays are still a very good medium for long term data storage, like a cold offsite backup.
Isn’t that what tapes are for.
When the tape drive fails and eats your tape in the process, you better hope you have a second backup or you’ll be crying salty salty tears.
I worked in the service center for a tape-drive manufacturer and I would routinely see the drives we got back for repair. They were often taken apart by the customer in a frantic and desperate attempt to get their cassette out. The cassette was almost always still in there though, with multiple feet of tape snagged and wound around everything.
