coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 3 months agoSony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitablewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1123arrow-down10
arrow-up1123arrow-down1external-linkSony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitablewww.tomshardware.comcoyotino [he/him]@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-squarecoyotino [he/him]@beehaw.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·3 months agofortunately, this change does not affect Bluray movies you can buy at the store. This is only about recordable Bluray drives, which basically no one uses on a consumer level.
minus-squareTheButtonJustSpinslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months agoI’m pretty sure some people use them for backups.
minus-squareJCPhoenix@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoI’m sure they do, but I feel like even on r/datahoarders, I only ever see people talk about masses of HDDs, tape drives, or cloud storage.
minus-squarerekabis@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months ago8Tb optical disks don’t exist. Much cheaper to just do spinning-rust or cloud.
fortunately, this change does not affect Bluray movies you can buy at the store. This is only about recordable Bluray drives, which basically no one uses on a consumer level.
I’m pretty sure some people use them for backups.
I’m sure they do, but I feel like even on r/datahoarders, I only ever see people talk about masses of HDDs, tape drives, or cloud storage.
8Tb optical disks don’t exist. Much cheaper to just do spinning-rust or cloud.
There are dozens of us!