Comment on Sony won't phase out Blu-ray movie and game discs, only ceasing production on consumer BD-R
jqubed@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They’re not the only ones making that media, right? Or do they make the media for everyone and put other names like Memorex on the label?
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Don’t the other companies still have to license or at least pay royalties to Sony to make BD-R or that only for commercial discs?
swayevenly@lemm.ee 4 months ago
No. Sony was one of 9 companies that started blu-ray in 2002. There are more now that can liscense production of it.
StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Unless I’m mistaken, and I probably am, the patents on blueray should have expired by now. Software side might be covered under copyright right though. Not sure if software can be copyrighted though tbh.
VonReposti@feddit.dk 4 months ago
Software is copyrighted but nothing stops you from coding your own identical version. You just can’t re-use any code from the original.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Not sure where you get this, but the standard is now ruled by Blu-ray Disk Association. There’s no mention about patent. I’ve looked on the Wikipedia page and the only mention about royalty is about the video codec.