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  • "Things currently look rather bleak for Blu-ray."

    From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 8 14:17:33 2021
  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to gggg gggg on Thu Sep 9 10:33:01 2021
    On 2021-09-08 21:17:33 +0000, gggg gggg said:

    https://www.whathifi.com/features/the-tech-endangered-list-are-these-devices-and-formats-the-next-to-go


    Not really. Apple has for the first time just released one of their
    Apple TV shows on Blu-ray format ... despite the fact that no recent
    Apple computer ships with a DVD drive and none have ever shipped with a
    Blu-ray drive.

    Blu-ray itself may or may not be replaced by HD / 4K (or 8K, 16K,
    etc.), but disc formats in some form are likely to be around for a
    while yet. Most things are still being released on the even older DVD
    format.

    The reality is, that like the resurgance of vinyl records, some people
    simply like to own an actual real product rather than a silly digital
    download (or worse, a web-stored version that can easily be deleted at
    the whim or legal change by the website owners).

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  • From JTEM@21:1/5 to gggg gggg on Thu Sep 9 05:48:13 2021
    gggg gggg wrote:
    https://www.whathifi.com/features/the-tech-endangered-list-are-these-devices-and-formats-the-next-to-go

    I remember, working a film festival, the owner decided that because
    he was Tribeka, Sundance & Cannes all rolled into one, films had to
    be on BluRay, and it was so unpopular that practically nobody had a
    player and even fewer had a burner. So to maintain the quality of his
    World Class event he told filmmakers that if they got their screening
    copies submitted on time we would burn them to BluRay for them.

    That turned out to be true. For a lot. But mostly it was just a shit show.

    I think by the next year everyone had moved to online screeners
    anyway so the flirtation with BluRay ended...

    When BluRay first came out I had made the conscious decision that
    I would be unsubscribing from ownership. I chased & collected way
    too many VHS tapes, and then even more DVDs and to hell with anyone
    who thought I was going to buy everything all over again.

    Besides, I was part of what was probably the last generation that
    experienced life when everything wasn't available all the time. We were
    vert late subscribers to cable -- had friends who had it when I was a
    kid, but it never entered the house until I was a legal adult. No, until I
    was already an adult, if I wanted to watch a King Kong or Wizard of Oz
    I had to wait for that once a year event when it came on the TV,
    commercials and all. So the idea of watching the Bob Fosse favorite
    of mine whenever I feel like it, or that Humphrey Bogart classic, is
    "Normal." Which means "Screw" BluRay and "Screw" this ridiculous
    fake "Buying" a streaming copy.

    Yes I'm bitter.



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