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.

• ChillPill@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Still there for the duration.

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    • IHeartBadCode@kbin.run ⁨4⁩ ⁨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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      • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks, my point is simply just that data is still physical, no matter what.

        A document locked inside a box that I personally don’t have a key to doesn’t make the document inside of it non-existent.

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• finley@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨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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