Probably only a matter of time, but sad for those of us who still value physical formats, for whatever reason(s).
Slightly surprised that MiniDisc lasted so long in comparison!
Mark
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âBandes dessineeâ drawn strips; basically comic books.
I had no idea you could still buy new blank minidiscs (in Japan). Apparently the availability new is now slim, and reseller prices are on the up. I think I must have 50 odd brand new ones in cellophane.
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My dealer mentioned the paradox of ever more advanced high fidelity AV processors and increasingly only a diet of crap streamed to a FireStick to play on them as disc and player options dwindle.
Itâs the enshittification of the modern world. Anti-progress if you will.
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It certainly is. Iâve just dipped my toes into SACD, and I reckon itâs my best source.
I keep watching 4K Atmos content on Prime and Netflix and thinking Iâm starting to go deaf and blind. Then I stream a ripped disc, even 1080p and, âOh my gosh I can see and hear again!â
The compression ratios on streaming really destroy it. Itâs not as noticeable on a smaller screen via a soundbar, but it feels like theyâve declared war on people with decent home cinema setups.
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Funny you say that. A few weeks ago we were streaming Top Gun Maverick in the lounge and I said to Mrs Mike, this doesnât sound too good, we should put the 4K disc on. So we did, as you say, no comparison.
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Digging into the press release a bit more, it is specific to blank BRD for home recorders and computer backup. Not affecting fabrication of pre recorded content.
Yet.
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Ah, thatâs some relief. I did click on the link, but my Japanese wasnât really up to the task, so thank you @feeling_zen!
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Is this not what I said?
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It is spot on and I am proving you right
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Thanks for posting that, I was unaware.
The reality is I suspect that optical media for personal storage/backup is considerably less practical and without major capacity benefits over smaller solid state storage which has become fairly cheap compared to the hassle of writing to optical media and maintaining a working optical drive and potentially more than 1 optical media burn for a given thing.
I have quite a few âplattersâ of unused DVD media in storage I suspect Iâll never actually use. I have a few external BluRay/DVD writers but they have been primarily used for ripping rather than writing in recent years.
I canât begin to think how much money I wasted on computer related peripherals/storage which plummeted in cost and were rapidly made obsolete by better devices. (ZIP drives and their various interfaces was a notable fail for me).
For the sort of data volumes we deal with, BR are somewhat inadequate. Moreso for the frequent change-backup-change-backup cycle data now endlessly iterates through.
And given I can pop into a newsagent and pick up a 128GiB USB stick for $10, one starts to wonder if solid state media is not a better way forward for sales of uncompressed movies too. My last 3 BR players all supported direct playback of MKV or ISO from USB ports on the front panel and the last one I bought was 12 years ago.
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