Comment on 16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches
radieschen@slrpnk.net 1 day agoWhat’s the use case? I haven’t had an optical drive for all least 10 years and can’t say that I’ve missed it. Not even once, I think.
Retro gaming and media rips.
You can literally pop a ps2 game and just play with pcsx2, don’t even have to rip it. Given the recent pushes towards “you’ll own nothing and fuck you if you don’t like it” it isn’t surprising to me that a company is offering a path back to media ownership.
Based on the specs for the machine, that’s the goal as well. I wouldn’t consider a 16 GB kit sufficient for much else than a media/web machine anymore, and that’s the default on the advertised rig
One of the good things about emulating is not having to manage a bunch of discs.
You should read the EULAs you sign when you Buy digital media.
If it isn’t on a physical device that someone can’t take away, you don’t own it, and even then you still have DRM in the way of you and the data you bought and paid for. That’s why game consoles are being sold without disc trays, and why services like game pass are being pushed so hard. The writing has been on the wall for years, and ubisoft’s director even said it out loud.
Emulation from backup file still requires somebody rip the game, and if you download that you’re stuck in a legal gray area, even if you own a physical copy of the game. For some, that’s a dealbreaker.
I don’t care what EULAs or the law says.
Yep physical media is for newbies. It has its place, for newbies, but soon enough you should graduate to a level where you don’t need it anymore. The Internet becomes a complete and easy to use library once you know where to find it. Yarr, matey, it simply be data archival an’ don’t let Davy Jones’ lawyers be tellin’ ye otherwise.
…so do people not expect to upload their own rips anymore?
I have several use cases, a big one being that it gives me an alternate storage medium for backing up home photos and videos. Obviously there's caveats on how long BD-Rs last (although M-discs should outlast me) and the issue of needing a player in future, but it gives me more peace of mind knowing that I can backup these sorts of things to different storage types (external hard drives are all well and good until they're corrupted by power issues or user error, or you want to keep a copy at a relative's place and it's a multi-hour trip... with optical media you can just keep adding discs to the offsite backup as needed and update the external HDD less frequently).
The other major use case I have has already been mentioned - backing up Blurays that I've bought (or, in the case of a few shows I like, being able to compare the DVD vs Bluray frame by frame).
I have one but it is external and I use it to rip BluRays. Shh don’t tell anyone.
I use M-DISC (not all blu-rays are M-DISC) for backing up important documents.
Armand1@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Backing up Blu-rays and watching them on your device.
Unlike with music, you can’t buy DRM-free Blu-ray quality movies outside of Blu-ray. If you stream a show or movie, even if you have “bought”, you don’t own it.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
You can torrent blu rays. And if you already own the disc, it’s probably even legal.
thejml@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Someone has to rip it in the first place.
I prefer to rip my own, as well as CD’s and DVD’s I already own. I also do a lot with retro hardware that doesn’t always have a USB port.
BluRays are also fairly decent for offline, offsite backups, though writable media is getting expensive.