don't worry, it will vanish soon and everything will be "in the clouds"
aren't you excited?
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Brother, I have those 40tb raid arrays at home. None of this crap will affect me. Oh and for games I don't play those. But if I did I would stop buying Sony crap.
Neat!
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Meanwhile, vinyl is minding its own business...
Turns out pressing PVC into the shape of a sound wave is so cheap and so easy that people won't stop doing it
I was thinking of having a vinyl backup of my current favourite playlist but it's ten hours long so it could take some time
You're going to have forearms like tree trunks by the time you're done.
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It's not PVC, it's vinyl.
cheap
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Bluray is still alive and well because its the only format that has full quality basically 1:1 media encodes which ironically make up the backbone of full quality media piracy.
No streaming service will ever support 70Gb+ file sizes because they never bothered to implement multicast so it would shred their bandwidth or rely on predownloading which would shred the tiny local storage included on most smart TVs.
You could of course use jellyfin or any other file share protocol to DIY, but you'd better have a stable 100Mbps minimum upload/download speed lol.
I don't have a source, but I do believe I've already seen articles about multiple studios reducing their bluray releases. I think there was one studio which wanted to completely stop all of them even.
all of those are digital
It's meant to stand for "digital download", but that's what you get from trying to shorten everything to one word or less.
Cassette.
My personal conspiracy theory is that Sony is trying to kill Blu-ray before it enters public domain. (2028-2030 or so). Single-layer Blu-rays are invaluable for my cold storage backups. So I'm going to keep buying them. And thanks to them, entering public domain, innovation will be possible once again. So, in all honesty, I don't have that much to fear, as mega corporations also use blu-rays heavily for backups, together with tape.
How's the long-term stability of Blu-Ray? I know we're running into problems with magnetic tape and CDs degrading.
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They still make CDs and Blu-Rays you know. The others are obsolete technologies.
And DVDs (movies get released as DVD, BR and UHD4K) and Floppies (New Amiga releases with a physical release) and Cartridges (evercade)
I miss HDDVDs. Their better error correction will be missed more, soon, as this stuff degrades a bit.
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One day digital is also going to die and we will be forced to stream games on a crappy service that costs 50$ a month
Go to your local used game shops! There’s a treasure trove of good shit there.
Last time I was there they had Pokemon Crystal version for over $400, which is probably a fair price but reminded me the used games market is expensive :(
I have never been to a game shop with prices based in reality. They upcharge the hell out of their stuff and it’s insane.
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I feel sad Radio Shack ran out of business bc now you have to be at least 30 years old to know you can still acquire rippers for $10 to rip/burn dvds, cds, and games. I still use my first Xbox and my latest PS5 as DVD players. The most expensive part is storage atp.
Dont lose hope yet. Im (barely) under 30 and have one of those.
At some point does it make sense to use Blu Rays?
I have a No Man’s Sky disk. Like 5% of the code on that disk is in the production game today. It’s online only, so I couldn’t even play it with the disk.
Cartridges do kinda make sense, you could patch the game on them (in theory), they can come in much larger sizes than disks too.
Side note: modern gaming is shit.
I bought Spyro and couldn’t even play it without agreeing to a privacy policy. It’s a single player offline game from the PS1 era. I installed The Sims 4, I can’t even play without an EA account. I tried Assassin’s Creed and you need an Ubisoft account to open the game.
Shit is fucking stupid.
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Cartridge is alive and well in the Nintendo ecosystem.
Many are just Game Key Cards.
Which are like Carts, but they need to download digitally. The worst of both worlds :D
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Physical mediums aren't gone - they are just all HDD and SSD now.
I switched from CDs to HDDs two decades ago. HDDs are still great as physical long-term storage.
Your digital is just HDDs and SSDs in someone else's computers.
I've still got my tapes.
Cartridges aren't dead yet.
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