It's over for optical media on PC, isn't it?Buffalo promises to keep creating them for the American market, but it's only a matter of time.https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/japanese-firm-stops-production-of-blu-ray-disc-drives-buffalo-says-there-will-be-no-successors-to-its-current-trio-of-portable-usb-attached-driveshttps://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/another-major-japanese-electronics-firm-exits-the-blu-ray-market-elecom-publishes-notice-of-termination-of-nine-external-drives
>>108497999>It's over for optical media on PC, isn't it?It's been over for atleast a decadeeither way WDVD and drives are still being sold and are much better alternative than paying 10 dollars for a single disc lmao
>>108497999Blu-Ray drives will become the new hot item to start scalping?
>>108497999Yeah, I never owned a single blu-ray.Why would I, when ~50TB of glorious HDD storage exist in my house ?
>>108498074Probably, especially those that can dump compact discs in scrambled mode.
Are anything in those even manufactured by them or are they just some rebadged random drives in usb case?
>>108498262As per Kakaku.com, the LBD-LPWAWU3NDB drive (the most barebones version of that family of drives) is a rebadged LG BP71N.https://bbs.kakaku.com/bbs/K0001347589/SortID=24388316/
>>108498279So another worthless middleman bites the dust because chinese external drives built with the exact same drive and exact same bridge chips are half the price.
>>108498320Chinese external drives can wildly vary in quality.Besides, Chinese drives mostly use Panasonic and Pioneer drives, and those cannot be used to dump PS3/4 games.https://rpcs3.net/quickstartI've seen a review of someone getting a 2013 Panasonic drive on their external Blu-ray drive.The only mentions to the LG BP71n I can find are from this very year.https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28105
>>108498375Nevermind, it's 2022. Nonetheless, the point still stands.
>>108497999Usecase for owning blu rays when 32gb flash drivers cost pennies? (And can be rewritten?)
>>108497999External BD were shit anyways.
>>108498074They have been for years already but there isn't much demand.
>>108498715This drive alongside some of the more coveted UHD Blu-Ray drives are the ones that are currently in demand.I don't really know what somebody would do with HD-DVD functionality in this day and age unless they just love short-lived formats, but they consistently sell for over $100 as of recent.I don't see how it would be any different from owning the Blu-Ray in this case.
Shit. I'd better buy another one to have a backup just in case.
That is 1 of many companies manufacturing this product. Discs will never be obsolete due to their low cost and versatility. Some can be rewritten as well!
>>108498760>over $100 as of recent.That's a steal.
