Cartridge is alive and well in the Nintendo ecosystem.
Bluray is still alive and well because its the only format that has full quality basically 1:1 media encodes which ironically make up the backbone of full quality media piracy.
No streaming service will ever support 70Gb+ file sizes because they never bothered to implement multicast so it would shred their bandwidth or rely on predownloading which would shred the tiny local storage included on most smart TVs.
You could of course use jellyfin or any other file share protocol to DIY, but you’d better have a stable 100Mbps minimum upload/download speed lol.
I don’t have a source, but I do believe I’ve already seen articles about multiple studios reducing their bluray releases. I think there was one studio which wanted to completely stop all of them even.
Blu ray video is lossy compressed. Lossless video is huge.
Your mom is lossless.
Yeah she’s a classy lady
After digital: Direct brain implantation. IE all your games are stored in memory. And I don’t mean RAM. It also isn’t YOUR brain.
What like on the brains on Indian children in those Matrix tubes?
I know this might get me a lot of hate on here, but I don’t really care and I don’t understand why people are this upset about it. I can’t remember the last time I bought physical media, nor do I know anyone that has. And most games that are released on physical media are unplayable anyways without the obligatory 40GB day one patch - making the entire concept of physical media pointless.
So yeah, idk if people are actually upset about this or if this is just a big outrage over nothing if I’m honest. But maybe I’m just too PC-pilled in my free and open source ecosystem to realize the struggles of living under the boot of a corporation that removes stuff you paid for at will lmaooo.
Today it’s games and movies. Tomorrow it’s something actually important and they’ll rent us an apology for a terminal illness and nothing else.
Honestly 90% of the movies we want to watch aren’t on Prime (which we happen to have for non-movie-reasons) and we would need extra subscriptions for each of them. It is cheaper and more convenient for us to buy used blu rays or dvds of the movies. It’s 3,99€ to rent a movie for 48 hours (best case, usually it is some arthouse subscription) or 2,17€ for the DVD on medimops. We watch during lunch break so we usually can’t make it through a movie in 48 hours without stressing. (My spouse does not want to pirate anymore and I support that.)
Our daughter has her own small collection of cartoons and anime that she can choose for a TV treat instead of scrolling through the endless void of the internet.
I love booklets too much to ever let go of CDs.
I have been living the resurgence of vinyl. I’m not old, I just need large print liner notes.
I know that’s not what you meant… But those are all digital…
The only one that is not a digital medium is “digital”, because it is not a medium.
It could be if we intentionally misinterpret the word digital
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My personal conspiracy theory is that Sony is trying to kill Blu-ray before it enters public domain. (2028-2030 or so). Single-layer Blu-rays are invaluable for my cold storage backups. So I’m going to keep buying them. And thanks to them, entering public domain, innovation will be possible once again. So, in all honesty, I don’t have that much to fear, as mega corporations also use blu-rays heavily for backups, together with tape.
How’s the long-term stability of Blu-Ray? I know we’re running into problems with magnetic tape and CDs degrading.
There’s M-Discs which are supposed to last 100 years I’ve heard.
All of these media are digital! Only digital is no medium but an encoding scheme.
Currently used media are HDD and SSD.
Go to your local used game shops! There’s a treasure trove of good shit there.
You know, I haven’t tried requesting a video game through interlibrary loan and now I kind of want to just to try it. I love inter library loan
I have never been to a game shop with prices based in reality. They upcharge the hell out of their stuff and it’s insane.
Thrift stores used to be pretty good. It was a flat few dollars per game the last time I looked at them.
Yeah, used to. But people figured out years ago that old copies of pokemon go for 100€+ on ebay so they are basically hunting every thrift store or flea markets for elderly mothers who sell their sons stuff who moved out 10 years ago and hasn’t bothered picking his old stuff up.
… all of them priced like brand new games. Some more expensive than their original retail price, thanks to inflation.
At least that’s the case in my local used game shops.
But that’s okay. I can find plenty of booty to plunder on the high seas.
Less thanks to inflation and more due to scalpers who will buy them and flip them on ebay if they’re not
Meanwhile, vinyl is minding his own business…
Techmoan has entered the chat
Turns out pressing PVC into the shape of a sound wave is so cheap and so easy that people won’t stop doing it
cheap
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I was thinking of having a vinyl backup of my current favourite playlist but it’s ten hours long so it could take some time
Only ten hours? Nice. I’m having trouble getting mine below 24.
I want it a nice even 17 hours, but I don’t want to change anything. Yes, I know that doesn’t work.
You’re going to have forearms like tree trunks by the time you’re done.
Just need a couple to backup a few terabytes of data
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With storage redundancy, of course. Because eventually, your hard drive will fail.
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Across two medium!
With one of the backups off-site!
Console players kinda deserve this. They put everything into a closed ecosystem and they couldn’t justify thier usecase to the masses.
Dude. This idea that it needs to be one or the other died with the Sega dreamcast.
I still buy any new music on CD and regularly buy DVDS. I buy more new DVDs than Blu-ray actually.
Me two! Except without the Cds or Dvds or buying
don’t worry, it will vanish soon and everything will be “in the clouds”
aren’t you excited?
Brother, I have those 40tb raid arrays at home. None of this crap will affect me. Oh and for games I don’t play those. But if I did I would stop buying Sony crap.
Neat!
Wouldn’t that still be digital though? Just not on your computer and not in your direct control?
digital is pure semantics here, we are talking about control
True, but there’s bad digital like Amazon Video, and good digital like GOG.
I’m torn. Like, there are two online medical equipment shops covered by my insurance. The one I use and Amazon. I’m the unusual event my supplier is having delays I can usually get equipment from Amazon in their standard delivery window.
Like, we’ve gotten bipap parts on there when a family member traveled across the country and left half of their ventilator at home. It was not cheap, but it was quick and that’s what they needed.
Like, there’s a good, necessary service under all the bullshit that other companies seem to be unable to match for reasons I don’t understand, probably having to do with paying and treating labor more fairly. If it weren’t life and death sometimes
