Comment on 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.

Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• db2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Dalraz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Take your upvote

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  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Its an old code but it checks out 😅

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• deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They do not own it, they did co-develop it.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s still the super-DVDs, or whatever they were called.

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      • Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        mega-discs

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    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You thought blu ray sales would just continue forever?

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    • mindlight@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why are you worried about Sony owning the blu-ray format?

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      • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If they’re decreasing their production, it could mean that physical media is ending. If so, that fucking sucks because you can’t own anything anymore

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      • aniki@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  🏴‍☠️

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  • WanderingVentra@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 =(

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• Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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?

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  • tinkling4938@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ZFS FTW

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I upgraded my datahoarding server to a pair of 18TB hard drives on ZFS with mirroring. It’ll be several years before I need to upgrade again, but I expect that when I do, SSDs will be cheap enough to go that route.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Commercially pressed discs don’t last forever, but longer than burnable discs. IIRC, they used to say 50 years for CDs, but in practice, it was a lot less. More like 20 or 30 if you store and handle them nicely. Easily less than 10 if you don’t.

    Hard drives go bad over time; I don’t like trusting spinning platters much over 7 years. They can be OK, but they can suddenly stop working whenever.

    SSDs are about the same as spinning platters.

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    • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think we are talking about archival storage rather than storage in use. In which case hard drives can last decades.

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      • frezik@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I wouldn’t trust it that way, no. They might last decades. They also might not. It’s a gamble on any single drive, or even a few mirrored drives.

        File system also matters. Modern ZFS has error checking that can handle some level of bit rot. Older formats generally don’t.

        If it’s over 7 years or so, I want to get the data off of there.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I guess hard drives and SSDs don’t count as physical somehow?

  Even on a streaming service, the files are stored physically somewhere.

  All media is still, technically, physical media.

  Even when you stream it locally, it physically lives in your RAM.

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  • ChillPill@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    hard drives and SSDs don’t count as physical

    When was the last time you walked into any store and bought a feature length film or tv show on hard drive or SSD?

    Even on a streaming service, the files are stored physically somewhere.

    What is your plan when the licence agreement for your favorite series expires on your chosen streaming service and no other streaming service picks up the show?

    All media is still, technically, physical media

    No one is arguing this. You’re making the strawman arguement. The not-so-subtle undertone of the article is clear.

    Quoting the article:

    The planned job cuts come amid a decline in demand for traditional storage formats such as Blu-ray discs, with streaming services now the norm.

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    The electronics and entertainment conglomerate will also gradually cease production of optical disc storage media products, including Blu-ray discs, according to the sources.

    You will not be allowed to legally own tv shows or films and you should learn to like it. As I can tell from many of the other comments here, not many of us are fans of that idea.

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    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This isn’t a hill I care enough to die on.

      I’ve never bought a series in any format. It’s always been piracy and for at least the last 5 years catch and release.

      What I mean is, I don’t want to keep series in any case.

      That said, now I think about it, if I didn’t pirate everything then keeping copies of what I’d paid for world feel important

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When was the last time you walked into any store and bought a feature length film or tv show on hard drive or SSD?

      Well not ANYMORE!!! Not since Best Buy stopped carrying physical media!!!

      /s

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    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What is your plan when the licence agreement for your favorite series expires on your chosen streaming service and no other streaming service picks up the show?

      Watch the other millions of hours of media that’s been released in the last 100 years

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You are very much missing the point for the sake of a pedantic argument.

    Someone else already perfectly illustrated the point in a comment below, so I guess I’m spared the effort.

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  • IHeartBadCode@kbin.run ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it physically lives in your RAM for the duration of the stream.

    It physically lives encrypted in your RAM and only temporarily. Remember TPM exists.

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    • Openopenopenopen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      storing a movie in RAM does not count as having a physical copy of the movie. While RAM is a form of physical media, the data stored in RAM is volatile and temporary. A physical copy of a movie typically refers to a more permanent and tangible form of storage, such as on a hard drive, SSD, USB flash drive, CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Still there for the duration.

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      • IHeartBadCode@kbin.run ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I guess. Technically. I don't usually count encrypted without the ability to decrypt as useful, but, I'll give you the up arrow because technically correct is the best kind of correct.

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  • finley@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the term “physical media” typically refers to portable physical media, such as floppy disks, optical media, and other solutions such as tape.

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