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How long til Blu-rays get phased out (lemmy.today)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Basically just the title. With DVDs getting tossed to the wind it made me wonder when will blu-rays go? I'm gonna miss bloopers and extra scenes

Edit: A bit confused but the general consensus is that in some areas BRs have already began to be phased out while in others they're just trucking along perfectly fine. It'll be that way until they stop being profitable to the studios who make them. Is that correct? I don't think the 8k argument is valid imo since that's really niche currently.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 81 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I foresee them making a comeback as more and more people realize that streaming services are terrible.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Media-bound formats are even more terrible though. File-based ones are much superior for longevity.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Agree that video files burned on blu ray would be ideal :D

Jokes aside: physical, unchangeable media do make sense imo.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apart from the "advantage" for the vendor in copy protection, where do physical, unchangeable media make sense? Particularly in terms of long-term use of the data on there. That basically ties the lifetime of the data to the lifetime of the physical object and also prevents backups.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I‘m not sure I understand you correctly. Unchangeable media has several upsides:

no virus or person without physical access can corrupt or destroy the data
even if inserted, nothing can change it
physical media can still be copied and backed up by any and all other means

I do accept that without programs to bypass copy protection, commercial movie discs are kind of a problem. Still, I dont see a problem of using burned discs as a long term storage device.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Okay, we might have been talking about different things. I am basically saying formats like video DVD, BluRay,... have no advantage over the same medium with a file on there that you can easily copy to a new one if necessary. Linking the format of the content to the medium itself is a bad idea.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 10 months ago

Yes. I fully agree and I meant storing files on blu ray disks but I probably failed to say so directly.

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But the people who release BRs are either the same people selling streaming subscriptions, or will be bought up by them. For example, Disney is no longer releasing BRs anymore.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.

Unless I can buy a BluRay, I’m not paying for a movie.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cable TV definitely phased out until streaming came alone.

What can be better than streaming for the general public? Most will just subscribe to every service anyway.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

As piracy becomes easier, I’d imagine piracy will be the best option for the general public. At least until streaming services offer a better alternative.