Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning
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In an interview Sony gave to AV Watch recently, the company admitted it's going to "gradually end development and production" of recordable Blu-rays and other optical disc...
  • Toes♀@ani.socialEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I have a BluRay drive capable of burning but I’ve never needed it for that. I’ve been mostly using it for my ancient cd collection.

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’ve never had a need to burn a blu-ray. When bd-r’s hit the scene with their obscenely priced recording drives, it was only maybe a year or two before flash memory had already become cheap and fast enough that any volume of data large enough to justify a BD was better served on a 16/32gb thumbdrive unless it needed to be distributed in volume, and I’ve never needed to make enough identical copies of something to justify the $200-$300 that the first drives cost.

    It sucks losing an option but I actually doubt most anyone will notice. 3rd party manufacturers will keep making disc’s for a while anyway, Sony is far from the only company doing this technology.

  • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
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    8 months ago

    We must cut all options for the end user to own anything, let’em pay subscriptions instead.

    In a SONY board meeting, probably.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Eh, I doubt many people are burning their own Blu-ray discs - this does not apply to discs you buy that already have films on, those are manufactured differently, and are still being made.

      But even if you do archive your personal data onto Blu-ray discs, there are still other manufacturers besides Sony.

      This really isn’t a big deal.

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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    8 months ago

    It’s okay, in 75 years Japan’s government will still be keeping them alive. That’s why you can still buy floppy discs on Amazon.

      • corroded@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I sort of understand still selling CF cards. They were used in high end photo and video equipment until not too long ago, and they have storage space comparable with smaller SD cards and USB drives. Plenty of equipment using CF is still perfectly good and still worth using.

        I’ve never heard of a zip card. If you mean the old zip disks (I think the largest was 250MB or so), I can’t imagine any reason someone would ever use one of these. Even new, zip drives were notoriously unreliable and not all that widespread. I had one, and I rarely used it in favor of CD-R or RW.

        • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 months ago

          CF is still used in high-end DSLRs. Like, it’s still the “premium” storage option.

          CD burning is still kinda useful for hifi. I wouldn’t use it for data these days.

          Iomega ZIP disks. Those things just clicked all day.

  • Teknikal@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I find it kinda funny Sony tried so hard to own the standard so many times thought they eventually got it but then the Internet made it irrelavent almost instantly.

    I don’t like Sony.

    • Einar@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Am with you. Their midrange phones still have headphone jacks, though. I like that.

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Sony phones are pretty great for stuff like this tbh

        • MicroSD

        • dual SIM

        • headphone jacks (this is despite Sony being one of the biggest names in Bluetooth audio and therefore more likely to benefit from getting rid of 3.5mm)

        • they stuck to notification LEDs longer than anybody (sadly stopped on their newest gen IIRC?

        • dedicated 2-stage camera shutter buttons

        • no notch, no hole punch

        • stereo, front-facing speakers

        • first to embrace water resistance on smartphones

        • an OS that doesn’t treat you like a complete baby. It shows some relatively advanced options in the settings app and actually explains what they mean and why you’d want to use them. I appreciate that.

        • shockingly FOSS friendly, even going as far as providing bootable AOSP builds on their GitHub, as well as contributing more to AOSP code than anybody other than Google themselves, despite being a niche OEM

        There’s a few things that suck. They need to extend their software support, their naming is dreadful (yes I know it follows the camera division naming, it’s still dumb), and they try to charge Apple/Samsung prices despite not being in the same dominant market position. But overall their Xperia division actually puts out some good stuff IMO.

        • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          8 months ago

          (this is despite Sony being one of the biggest names in Bluetooth audio and therefore more likely to benefit from getting rid of 3.5mm)

          What’s fun about that is the bluetooth sucks in many experia phones. So if someone wanted to use a bluetooth device they’d be better off just getting a new phone. My friend has fun with his Tesla where his wife has to turn bluetooth off on her phone before they get in otherwise the car will only connect to her phone and not load his profile/get angry if she gets out.