After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb
After 18 years, Sony's recordable Blu-ray media production draws to a close — will shut last factory in Feb (Updated)
MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes will also be abandoned.
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.
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
If there are no more discs to rip how will people get the movies and shows in the first place?
For all their efforts in DRM, Netflix et al have thus far failed to prevent people from ripping their highest quality streams and torrenting them
My setup has had 0 issues grabbing the latest "streaming only" content very quickly after release
Having watched some of my favorites on Netflix, even with their 4K offering, the compression can kill a scene. Netflix has no incentive to provide the 0.1% of viewers who care about a better quality stream, so they don’t.
I've learned one thing in my time on the internet.
If there is a will, there is a way and yo ho fiddle dee dee they sure will find it.
There's always an analog hole.
Webrips mate.
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
Biggest one could take 2TB per disc
I mean it's cool for a disc, but HDDs still beat that, Seagate just released a 36TB HDD to mass market, optical always lags behind on storage density and speed
From wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_Disc
Sony used Archival Disc in their Optical Disc Archive professional archival product range, and aimed to create at least a 6-TB storage medium. As of 2020, they offered 5.5 TB Optical Disc Archive Cartridges.[14][15][16]
That limit I mentioned has nothing with the 'technological limit'. Simply enough they lost with the adoption - if the clients wanted, they would get bigger archival discs.
I'm aware, I've done heavy research for my own mass cold archival plans.
It's a physics problem is why it lags behind HDDs so much, and to reach that 6TB on optical it's a cartridge with literal multiple discs inside. Adoption or no, it was never going to reach storage density parity with HDDs. Hell, even SSDs are having a difficult time taking on HDDs storage density
Optical drives already are surpassing magnetic or even ssd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_data_storage it's more advanced version of optical drives, for obvious reasons it's just a prototype and most likely it will stay so for quite a long time but still, optical storage hasn't reached the limit.
Tape drives go currently to 18TB with LTO9
There is the Ultra HD Blu-ray. The problem is that not enough people are buying it.
I wish there was an easy answer. However, I can't think of one.
SD cards & microSD cards are still an option
Sure, for storage. I’m more concerned about first party sources for high quality rips. The only thing left will be streaming rips, which just don’t compare on a proper display, especially once HDR gets involved.
It’s like if they just stopped selling CDs and all you could find were YouTube rips anymore.
Flash memory cells reset over time if not powered, often faster than disks rot.
