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After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes will also be abandoned.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (18 children)

This is truly disappointing. The end of a physical media era and nothing on the horizon to replace it.

But this move to streaming libraries, where there is no ownership and the movies and shows you watch could simply disappear without warning, reminds us how fleeting life can be.

No, it reminds me our corporate overlords will continue to take away things that don’t make them a continuous stream of free money.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Jellyfin/Plex + Sonarr/Radarr + Usenet + HDDs/SSDs

HDDs/SSDs are a form of physical recordable media with FAR more capacity and speed than any optical medium

[–] endofline 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

No, there was one next more "optical image" after Blue-rays. Archive Disc mainly used for backups in companies dealing with lots of images. Biggest one could take 2TB per disc, as much as tape drives. However, they didn't get adoption and it has been discontinued. Sadly