Comment on As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market

Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Mine usually have the life span of 1 toddler encounter

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• burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  500gb for $150 is a little bit pricy for me tbh. I don’t think I’d ever need something quite so long lasting and will we even watch or interact with media the same way in like 40 years? Movies and screens may get phased out for holo or something no ones even dreamed of yet.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If the burner is cheap enough, or you can borrow one, backing up family photos in a way that will be viewable in hundreds of years time would be worth it to me.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I would not even be confident that the disc would be readable in 50 years’ time except by certain archivists or hobbyists.

      There are so many hours of music people wrote on Amigas or Atari STs that are just floating around out there on floppy discs that are still readable by a small number of people, so they will never be heard again, and it’s been only 30 years.

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      • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This is why you add a disc reader and a laptop that can run directly from a power brick without a battery installed in the safe. This way the next generation has a way to read it and transfer it to modern media.

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    • burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I have like 3 pictures I actually care about anymore I’d be more than willing to delete the rest. My parents have always taken like at least a dozen pictures every time we “do something” and I always have to ask… Why drop everything you are doing for a picture that you will, in all likelihood, never look at again. I’d much

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Because in 20 years your memory will be lost. But you’ll run across the photo and it will be incredible. It will both remind you and fill in the gaps that your memory lost.

        I have all the best photos of my kids printed every year into a photo album. I don’t trust digital despite having 3 copies. My 100 year azzo verbatim DVDs kept in black cases in the basement went bad after 10 years. Mdisc on paper should actually last 100 unlike azzo but I don’t trust it either.

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      • Cataphract@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        lol I don’t think you’re the target demographic if you can’t imagine any scenario of this having a good purpose to exist. It’s apparently rated by the Department of Defense, definitely has some applications people are interested in. Hell, you could recoup costs on harddrive failures alone over your child’s lifetime, just need a reader. Would be a pretty neat present to give someone as well filled like a photo album with personal media/ favorite games/ music/ whatever you want backed up for your kids. People spend a lot of money on multiple backup options so this is just another ace in your deck along with other safeguards.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not without a disk drive that runs scrambled data decoding (BD+) in a VM on top of decryption (AACS), according to the (reverse engineered) DRM spec of bluray.

      wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blu-ray

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      • philpo@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        None of that is relevant to a self burned M/Archive BD

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      • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If you’re encrypting and scrambling your own personal data and not properly saving the keys, that L is on you dog.

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  • overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not sure where you’re from, but that website link is Australian and $150 AUD is about $94 USD at the moment.

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    • burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ahh, didn’t see the .au

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• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If only they weren’t so expensive.

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  • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nothing stops people from mix matching backup media.

    If I lose the series I downloaded versus my family photos, not the same impact.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The fuck are you backing up that you have 20tb of?

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    • mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Also I feel like at that point you might as well go tape rather than fiddle around with 40 Blu-rays.

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      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I mean, tapes just don’t have the same longetivity as an archive grade optical disc, but it’s probably fine for your collection of porn and pirated movies.

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    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Photographer, videographer mostly, buy also data hoarder, etc. I still have all my pre-AOL data, too.

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I only have an estimated 96 remaining years on this planet. Why would I care about my data after that?

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We regularly look at photographs taken at the dawn of photography, and read documents created hundreds or even thousands of years ago.

    There is a use case for this tech.

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