the whole point is to stop you from owning physical media so they can arbitrarily raise prices by creating artificial cause and demand through artificial scarcity.
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.
Submitted 4 months ago by TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.world
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240629/p2g/00m/0bu/018000c
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cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 months ago
anyone remember when the argument for digital goods was " We wont have to waste money on boxes, printing, media, storage, or shipping! So your goods will be cheaper than ever, and everyone will still get a more profitable cut!"
Pepperidge farm Remembers, because Pepperidge farm called bullshit on the argument back at the very start, and said they would get rid of physical media, not lower prices, and that we would lose ownership of our purchases… and the internet poopoo’d me to hell in back calling me paranoid and stupid for it.
and look where we are.
and its so goddamn fucked up I don’t even get a single molecule of serotonin from being right about it.
FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The internet is chock full of idiots who piss all over Cassandra
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I dunno. Steam did it well enough. I was buying cheap games for years. I could get a kick ass GOTY game for like $5 while GameStop was still selling it used on consoles for $20.
GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Jokes on Sony, they stopped getting my money years ago.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Damn, that’s some Qanon-level shit.
SlothMama@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I mean, except it’s not a conspiracy. The death of physical media is an actual tragedy because digital media is nowhere near as free.
It’s to the point where much of the media I love is actually not available legally and officially for physical ownership, in some cases becoming actual lost media physically, and not available for purchase or even download anymore.
Companies absolutely want to control the consumption of media in more restrictive ways that they can control, it’s not a conspiracy, it’s the actual truth.
DRM, always online, digital only, subscription services - they are all designed to remove you further and further from being an owner.
Everything from video games, music, movies…all entertainment media is moving in this direction and it’s an actual tragedy.
reddig33@lemmy.world 4 months ago
After spending all that money and effort to kill HDDVD. 😆
ryper@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Apparently “recordable media” here means the kind you can record on at home, e.g. CD-R, DVD-R.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 months ago
? . . . as opposed to - ?
ryper@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
As opposed to the discs movies are sold on.
frezik@midwest.social 4 months ago
- as opposed to +
WELCOME TO THE RABBIT HOLE
TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ll be sure to buy extras, since it’s clear this is yet another push towards the consumer market not deserving to own their media.
kaboom36@ani.social 4 months ago
Right as I’m getting into minidisc too
MSids@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Eyyy yes! I just picked up an MZ-N505 a few months ago! It’s been great at work to quickly start music without staring at my phone for 5 minutes first.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I was just getting the hang of cassettes !
Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
“Press Play on tape.”
(makes lunch)
“File found. Loading…”
(takes a bath, goes for a walk, reads a book…)
Ah the memories…
0x0@programming.dev 4 months ago
I think the data variant stores 1GB… good enough for archiving invoices and the like…
Cerbero@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You can get some pretty cheap used ones. At less than $2 each.
kaboom36@ani.social 4 months ago
Yeah but the thing that helps keep them at $2 is a supply of new ones
VanHalbgott@lemmus.org 4 months ago
Uh oh.
0x0@programming.dev 4 months ago
That one died a few days ago too.
captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 4 months ago
Damn. I was just starting to rebuild my physical catalog so I could get away from streaming.
finley@lemm.ee 4 months ago
i can’t even remember the last time i saw an optical disc. it must be several years.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Found a small part of the problem.
Physical media is dying because the majority of people think just as short sighted as businesses do. Businesses think in short term thoughts like quarters. They do so because investers want immediate return.
But why would you as a person not want physical media??? I literally bought a George Carlin dvd of one of his HBO specials 2 days ago. It was traded into a local resale shop as “used”. It was brand new, because even though the plastic wrap was gone, the adhesive label at the top was still unbroken. Brand new dvd. $3.
knotthatone@lemmy.one 4 months ago
Most people don’t know how to switch between inputs on their TVs or have gotten rid of their DVD or BluRay players at this point.
They’re using the built in streaming apps or they’ve plugged a Roku in where the cable box used to go.
finley@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I don’t want physical media because it’s a liability. It can get lost or destroyed very very easily, especially optical media.
Digital copies are portable, I can date to hold them, and, worst case, I can just re-download it.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
For me, digital media takes up more space. It’s a good thing and a bad thing. It takes up more space which means I need to have more space, but it’s also cool having the boxes and box art etc. Ultimately, as long as I own my media and it’s physically accessible to me (like located on my hard drive), then I am happy with that ownership and don’t have to worry about it being taken away from me.
GasMeterCrasher@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
You have to know where to look assuming you have working optics.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 4 months ago
They’re a very common form of personal backup. A few discs and an USB writer and you get a very long lasting medium for passwords, personal files, family photos etc.
Can also archive multimedia of course, the smallest discs are 25 GB and can pack a few films, a season of a series, or a lot of music.
finley@lemm.ee 4 months ago
i guess, but they’re not great for backup. Eps. R/RW optical media doesn’t last that long (5-10 years) and is easily damaged. You’d be better off with tape for long-term storage. or an M-Disk or some similar magnetic backup solution.
anticurrent@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
thin laptops and LED Disco Cases killed CD-readers anyways. it’s a shame to loose a cheap way of making media archives, but it is what it is.
art@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Keep in mind that though this is a blow to the industry, it’s not like optical media is just yet dead. Hell, there are still new releases to DVDs coming out today.
yamanii@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Downgrading from blu-ray to dvd is extremely grim.
ICastFist@programming.dev 4 months ago
I guess current codecs can make miracles with 4GB of disk space
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Space jam 3! And independent film featuring bugs 🐛 and a 🐇 bunny. The Matrix Housing Crisis… A film featuring Keanu as the one. He doesn’t collect enough retirement money so he’s out there pushing a cart. We saw a preview of him in “the matrix”. That bum in the subway… anyway good movie 😂.
Snapz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So that they can fully control the fate of digital media for “normal” people. Better not lapse on that subscription or fail to upgrade to the latest Sony TV… “Your” media library might not like that, be a shame if you lost access to those pretty titles you love…
0x0@programming.dev 4 months ago
MiniDisks too? Nooo!
FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wow I’m having a hard time believing that Sony of all people would abandon a technology
Matriks404@lemmy.world 4 months ago
[deleted]ChillPill@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You will own nothing and you will be happy.
NutWrench@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m perfectly fine with storing media on flash drives. Optical disks just adds an unnecessary step between me and enjoying my movies.
hardaysknight@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Flash loses bits of data without power
Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Welp… There goes physical media…
db2@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yep, I’m sure it’ll be gone Verbatim.
Dalraz@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Take your upvote
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Its an old code but it checks out 😅
deranger@sh.itjust.works 4 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.
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sony owns the blu-ray format. I’m worried.
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
🏴☠️
WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 4 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 =(
Comment105@lemm.ee 4 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?
tinkling4938@lemmynsfw.com 4 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.
frezik@midwest.social 4 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.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 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.
ChillPill@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?
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?
No one is arguing this. You’re making the strawman arguement. The not-so-subtle undertone of the article is clear.
Quoting the article:
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.
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.
IHeartBadCode@kbin.run 4 months ago
It physically lives encrypted in your RAM and only temporarily. Remember TPM exists.
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.