Physical media is finally dead. Are you happy now?

Physical media is finally dead. Are you happy now?

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  1. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Yes

  2. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I just formatted a floppy in my MPC2000, please keep your gay opinions to yourself.

    Also studios have been trying to force people to buy DVDs by only releasing Blu-Rays for a long time after home media of something is released, or forcing you to buy both Blu-Ray and DVD in one box. Streaming is hugely popular though too.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >have been trying to force people
      force people NOT to I meant obviously, sorry

  3. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    You can buy BD-R discs at just about any electronics store.

  4. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    DVD sales dropped because I switched to blu ray

  5. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    good. useless plastic is killing our planet and our bodies.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Billions of One use Masks and vaccine vials releasing microplastic fibers: Very Good!
      Media on plastic meant to be kept for decades: Very bad!

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >Media on plastic meant to be kept for decades
        CDs last, and I am very generous here, maximum 5 to 10 years

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          why do my SEGA Saturn discs work and look perfectly then? maybe you should google when the Saturn came out 🙂

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            are they CDs or DVDs?

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >Saturn
            >DVD

            zoom zoom

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            has nothing to do with zoomer etc. I just never had a saturn, literally nobody in the EU had this low tier trash.

            Pressed discs can easily last 50 years.
            My CD music collection that goes back to the 80s and PS1 games from the 90s still work perfectly.
            My backups I burnt all the way back since 2001 still work as well.

            >Pressed discs can easily last 50 years.
            I have red they last max 30 years.
            >My backups I burnt all the way back since 2001 still work as well.
            got some too which still work but there were so many burned discs back in the day, good they are gone, do you remember how many you burned and they didn't work? yes, wasted plastic.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Pressed discs can easily last 50 years.
          My CD music collection that goes back to the 80s and PS1 games from the 90s still work perfectly.
          My backups I burnt all the way back since 2001 still work as well.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >disc
            it's spelt disk moron

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            holy moron

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          I have yet to have a CD or DVD fail on me and I'm certain some of my collection is older than you.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >I have yet to have a CD or DVD fail on me and I'm certain some of my collection is older than you.
            birth date 82 here, I doubt it.
            I had a few CDs so yeah, I know it and you should stop talking bullshit lmao.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            That's a weird way to say you're underaged banned.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            I have two copies of the first CD ever printed commercially (it was a sampler disc included with the Philips CD1000) and both are perfect. Disc defects happen with all formats and are almost always because of a contaminant in the production process. They are not common at ALL.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            I have original CDs here from their release date like Tiamat's Wildhoney here, they work yes, but the originals aren't the bad ones I was talking about, it all started with the burning stuff, many CDs were trash, mass plastic production etc. if you know what I mean.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            yeah but even in the early days of CD burning you could pay eight bucks for MAM GOLD and it's rated for 500 years and made of gold, GOLD! woo hoo!

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            It's possible some of my collection is close to as you. I have a CD from '86 that works perfectly.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            nice 🙂

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        All plastic is bad. It's made from oil.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          There's a huge difference between something thats made to use only once and something that lasts decades.
          Also oil is good, it's how we even manage to live in a modern society.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        bet you're one of those trump wiener suckers who admires putin, the american republican right are absolutely fricked nowadays.

  6. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    happy? just indifferent given I haven't used these in over a decade

  7. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I use usb drives for mostly anything. I just bought a bunch of 64 gb ones for $3 a piece, and I mostly just use a new one everytime I need to move something between pcs.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Why don't you just buy an external HDD?

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Because I'm just moving stuff quickly from one pc to another, and it's easier with a thumbdrive than dragging an external HDD around.

  8. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    DVDs are limited to 480p, which is unsatisfactory in a time where many people have 4K displays and 1080p is considered the standard resolution for everyday content.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      You can't see more than NTSC resolution unless you sit too close to the screen anyway, it was scientifically designed to be all you ever needed.

      This isn't an opinion, it's a scientific fact for people even with 20/20 vision. I can provide sources.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >I can provide sources
        do it homosexual

  9. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >5 year old article
    shills aren't sending their best

  10. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Also Blu-Ray is dying faster than DVDs, the last commercial manufacturer of Blu-Ray drives suitable for consumer devices (not burner drives, players) stopped making Blu-Ray player mechanisms entirely at the end of 2023, saying they have enough on stock for "all projected needs" for the life of the format, and that once they're out they don't expect to make a new player.

    There is only one Blu-Ray drive maker making new Blu-Ray drives, that's Toshiba, and they make only a burner mechanism, not the cheaper player mechanisms. Blu-Ray is literally dead.

    OTOH there is a healthy market of commercial DVD player mechanisms, ensuring the format will indeed win over Blu-Ray.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      blu-ray priced themselves out of the market.

      A DVD burner can be readily had for $5, but blu-ray has always been at least $50. I occasionally (very rarely) need a dvd for something but I am unwilling to invest 10X just for this meme format

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        M-DISC burners are worth the price.

  11. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Who the frick is buying DVDs in 2024? You haven't moved to Blu Ray???

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      bootlegs are popping off on etsy bro
      https://www.mediaplaynews.com/industry-researcher-has-never-seen-so-many-disc-releases-the-majority-bootlegs/

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah no shit because Netflix refuses to release shows like The Gentlemen on Blu Ray / DVD so the only way to get them physically is bootlegs.

  12. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Bluray is the last form of physical media

    i really doubt that anything else will come after

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      No, it's a failed, higher-"D" format. Like Beta. DVD mechanisms are still widely produced, you can get them in lots of 1000 from places like Digikey or Mouser for like $2 a pop.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        your reading comprehension is really poor

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          i know much more about the topic than you, my "inability" to respond to your prompts is your own fault, not mine, certainly!

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah if you're so blind you can't tell the difference between 480p and 1080p. But I get it anon, you live in a turd world country so you watch your DVDs on your CRT.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          CRTs are better than LCD and OLED trash.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            whatever your cope is watching your CRT on your dirt floor surrounded by peeling paint

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >Yeah if you're so blind you can't tell the difference between 480p and 1080p.
          I could explain it to you scientifically but you're too thick to bother with. Needless to say if you sit with a picture taking up too wide of your field of view, you have to either rotate your eyeballs too much OR crane your neck leaving you fatigued, and unable to process the entire shown image all at once because you have to scan back and forth over it to see the whole thing, making your eyes AND brain work at a non-ergonomic clip.

          You should only behold things in the core of your field of view, called the zone, and outside of that there is the "field" where you can see some detail, but not full because of the shape of your cornea, and outside that is "the zone" where it's just blobs of shape and color.

          Any more detail would be wasted on the likes of you but I'm hoping lurkers will look all this up, it's known standard psychovisual technology.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            bro this image quality is fire, you can't see compression artifacts on DVDs

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            that's not a typical DVD frame grab, DVD supports a huge range of bit rates for both the audio and video

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            go ahead and say compression artifacts don't exist on DVDs

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            it depends on the encoder, decoder, bit rate...

            DVD encoders and decoders are not all alike

  13. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    They keep releasing movies on bluray for me to illegally download. I am happy as long as it keeps going.

  14. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    physical media was just DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM

    I'm fine with its demise

  15. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    In other news, vinyl records have been outselling CDs for about a decade now.

  16. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >like blu-rays? hope you also like that sickening green color they all seemed to be remastered with

  17. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    The difference between 480p (DVD, low quality streaming), and 1080p (Blu-ray, most HD streaming) is pretty obvious on a decent TV

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      only if you sit too close, see

      >Yeah if you're so blind you can't tell the difference between 480p and 1080p.
      I could explain it to you scientifically but you're too thick to bother with. Needless to say if you sit with a picture taking up too wide of your field of view, you have to either rotate your eyeballs too much OR crane your neck leaving you fatigued, and unable to process the entire shown image all at once because you have to scan back and forth over it to see the whole thing, making your eyes AND brain work at a non-ergonomic clip.

      You should only behold things in the core of your field of view, called the zone, and outside of that there is the "field" where you can see some detail, but not full because of the shape of your cornea, and outside that is "the zone" where it's just blobs of shape and color.

      Any more detail would be wasted on the likes of you but I'm hoping lurkers will look all this up, it's known standard psychovisual technology.

  18. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    dvd sucks
    blu-ray is the sweet spot
    4k blu-ray price/performance sucks

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