Verbatim is doing more than just keeping the formats on life support – it also unveiled new hardware at CES 2025. Its Slimline Blu-ray Writer lets you back up 4K video to Ultra HD Blu-ray and even comes bundled with antiquated Nero disc burning software.
This is the important part imo, given that LG and Sony both pulled out of the USB Blu-ray reader-writer market
Means we’ll be able to rip Blu-ray’s into the future (I hope)
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 month ago
www.verbatim.com.au/products/m-disc-bdxl-100gb/
100 GB, and a lifespan of hundreds of years, it’s hard to top that.
tdawg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mine usually have the life span of 1 toddler encounter
burgersc12@mander.xyz 1 month ago
500gb for $150 is a little bit pricy for me tbh. I don’t think I’d ever need something quite so long lasting and will we even watch or interact with media the same way in like 40 years? Movies and screens may get phased out for holo or something no ones even dreamed of yet.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 month ago
If the burner is cheap enough, or you can borrow one, backing up family photos in a way that will be viewable in hundreds of years time would be worth it to me.
overload@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Not sure where you’re from, but that website link is Australian and $150 AUD is about $94 USD at the moment.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 month ago
If only they weren’t so expensive.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Nothing stops people from mix matching backup media.
If I lose the series I downloaded versus my family photos, not the same impact.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The fuck are you backing up that you have 20tb of?
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 month ago
I only have an estimated 96 remaining years on this planet. Why would I care about my data after that?
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 month ago
We regularly look at photographs taken at the dawn of photography, and read documents created hundreds or even thousands of years ago.
There is a use case for this tech.