Physical media is finally dead. Are you happy now?
>>100195646Yes
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.
>>100195646You can buy BD-R discs at just about any electronics store.
>>100195646DVD sales dropped because I switched to blu ray
>>100195646good. useless plastic is killing our planet and our bodies.
happy? just indifferent given I haven't used these in over a decade
>>100195646I 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.
>>100195771Why don't you just buy an external HDD?
>>100195819Because I'm just moving stuff quickly from one pc to another, and it's easier with a thumbdrive than dragging an external HDD around.
>>100195646DVDs 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.
>>100195984You 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.
>>100195646>5 year old articleshills aren't sending their best
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.
>>100196199blu-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
>>100195646Who the fuck is buying DVDs in 2024? You haven't moved to Blu Ray???
>>100196246bootlegs are popping off on etsy brohttps://www.mediaplaynews.com/industry-researcher-has-never-seen-so-many-disc-releases-the-majority-bootlegs/
>>100196295Yeah 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.
Bluray is the last form of physical mediai really doubt that anything else will come after
>>100196220M-DISC burners are worth the price.
>>100195723Billions of One use Masks and vaccine vials releasing microplastic fibers: Very Good!Media on plastic meant to be kept for decades: Very bad!
>>100196383No, 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.
>>100195682>have been trying to force peopleforce people NOT to I meant obviously, sorry
>>100196433your reading comprehension is really poor
>>100196433Yeah 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.
>>100196458CRTs are better than LCD and OLED trash.
They keep releasing movies on bluray for me to illegally download. I am happy as long as it keeps going.
>>100196428>Media on plastic meant to be kept for decadesCDs last, and I am very generous here, maximum 5 to 10 years
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
>>100196484why do my SEGA Saturn discs work and look perfectly then? maybe you should google when the Saturn came out :)
>>100196511are they CDs or DVDs?
>>100196484Pressed 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.
>>100196523>Saturn>DVDzoom zoom
>>100196471whatever your cope is watching your CRT on your dirt floor surrounded by peeling paint
>>100196532>discit's spelt disk retard
>>100196484I have yet to have a CD or DVD fail on me and I'm certain some of my collection is older than you.
>>100196538has nothing to do with zoomer etc. I just never had a saturn, literally nobody in the EU had this low tier trash.>>100196532>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.
>>100196458>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.
>>100195646In other news, vinyl records have been outselling CDs for about a decade now.
>>100196589bro this image quality is fire, you can't see compression artifacts on DVDs
>>100196567>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.
>>100196607That's a weird way to say you're underaged banned.
>>100196607I 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.
>>100196602that's not a typical DVD frame grab, DVD supports a huge range of bit rates for both the audio and video
>>100196428All plastic is bad. It's made from oil.
>>100196648I 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.
>>100196111>I can provide sourcesdo it faggot
>>100196662go ahead and say compression artifacts don't exist on DVDs
>>100196681yeah 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!
>>100196687it depends on the encoder, decoder, bit rate...DVD encoders and decoders are not all alike
>>100196557holy retard
>>100196679There'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.
>>100196454i know much more about the topic than you, my "inability" to respond to your prompts is your own fault, not mine, certainly!
>like blu-rays? hope you also like that sickening green color they all seemed to be remastered with
>>100196428bet you're one of those trump cock suckers who admires putin, the american republican right are absolutely fucked nowadays.
The difference between 480p (DVD, low quality streaming), and 1080p (Blu-ray, most HD streaming) is pretty obvious on a decent TV
>>100196607It's possible some of my collection is close to as you. I have a CD from '86 that works perfectly.
>>100196929only if you sit too close, see>>100196589
>>100196948nice :)
dvd sucksblu-ray is the sweet spot4k blu-ray price/performance sucks
