Sony is stopping the production of blu ray discs

[dropsmegamega]

Honestly I was never a big fan of blu-ray, where I live for the price of 3 "rare" blu-ray films you can easily get an external hd and one month of internet to fill it with films...

Though I wonder what will be the future for films, its not like streaming services are being very lucrative, last time I checked they were just causing losses and they kept taking progressively worse decisions

 

[RageBurner]

Shout factory

Likely how future historians will label this era we are entering now. A lot of shouting and frustration as the big corps jostle the consumer around more and more.

 

[kamille]

Likely how future historians will label this era we are entering now. A lot of shouting and frustration as the big corps jostle the consumer around more and more.

History books probably won't be preserved from this time either

 

[RageBurner]

History books probably won't be preserved from this time either

Burn the books, hide the truth... yeah sounds familiar.

 

[kamille]

They license an absolute ton of old TV shows from the U.S., Canada, Japan, and the U.K., and always include loads of cool extra features and excellent packaging. Without their efforts, a ton of TV history would be lost forever.

I hope they at least won't go out of business because of this.

 

[Toppis]

Isn't this for Blu-ray-r only

 

[jvst_halof]

I will of course. But what about the people that can't download things? Games, anime, movies, tv. They are all a work of art created by someone who put time from their lives in to it and worked hard to bring their vision to life. It's disrespectful to have someone's life's work like that unable to be viewed by majority of people. Besides. There's plenty of media around that's been completely lost to time already. This is going to get even worse if there's no physical media anymore. With a click of a button everything you create can dissapear forever. Why even bother creating at that point?. Oh and the issue of censorship of older properties is going to get even worse too. That can be done with a click of a button too. See now how horrible this is?

also digital versions of games are more expensive than the physical ones

 

[Leon]

This would effectively kill console gaming for alot of people, so i doubt it effects gaming just yet, but we'll see.

 

[fake-kun]

also digital versions of games are more expensive than the physical ones

Which is a total bullshit, honestly.

 

[thanonyx]

If things go all digital then I'm choosing a life at digital sea.

 

[ObiSmellMaBoaby]

This is just Sony stopping though, there must be other brands manufacturing Blu discs. Still a suprise the main progenitor is stopping though.

 

[Prism_Red]

I'm at loss for words.

I'm sure Sony isn't the only blu-ray manufacturers out there, but I wonder how this will affect Japan entertainment industry, since anime and many music artists relies a lot on physical media sales.

I hope this doesn't mean Sony plan to abandon support for physical media, perhaps cartridge-based console for the next gen? One can only hope.

 

[Gorse]

This is just Sony stopping though, there must be other brands manufacturing Blu discs.

Sony owns the patent on Blu-Ray technology, because they created it. There may be a few scattered third-party manufacturers, or maybe some people who already license the technology (probably businesses that Sony has some sort of financial stake in), but they're by far the lion's share of the market.

 

[Don Patch]

This is dumb.
Really dumb.
Me hopes that large, beefy flash solutions for physical distribution (however limited) become a thing around.

 

[AnonymousCookieMonster]

I will of course. But what about the people that can't download things? Games, anime, movies, tv.

This is going to get even worse if there's no physical media anymore. With a click of a button everything you create can dissapear forever. Why even bother creating at that point?. Oh and the issue of censorship of older properties is going to get even worse too. That can be done with a click of a button too. See now how horrible this is?

I would think companies should get sued for such a thing, because it disrupts the purpose of copyright, and copyright lets you own your work for a limited time, everything is SUPPOSE to go public domain. Certain greedy companies like Disney want to own everything forever.

By the time it goes public domain, apathy and disinterest would take over and you get something like Whinny the Pooh Blood and Honey, using shock factor to make something.

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) ⭐ 2.9 | Horror

1h 24m | Not Rated

www.imdb.com

I am one such person.

Can't afford home internet and have to use mobile data for EVERYTHING, so downloads of any size are a no-go for me.

We have been simply forgotten about as times move on.

Recent codec improvements have resulted in huge strides in reduction in size. If you do SD i likely get 50Mb per episode.

I'd happily offer what i have, burned on disc for you.

 

[Waffles]

Recent codec improvements have resulted in huge strides in reduction in size. If you do SD i likely get 50Mb per episode.

I'd happily offer what i have, burned on disc for you.

Thank you. That's really generous of you.

 

[kamille]

Sony owns the patent on Blu-Ray technology, because they created it. There may be a few scattered third-party manufacturers, or maybe some people who already license the technology (probably businesses that Sony has some sort of financial stake in), but they're by far the lion's share of the market.

Personaly i think there's absolutely no hope for physical media after hearing this. It makes me more depressed than ever to hear that a lot of people just dismiss this saying it doesn't matter. We can still force sony to continue producing them in different ways but i don't think people are ready to fight for it.

 

[ThunderBoy]

If things go all digital then I'm choosing a life at digital sea.

oh man, let me get on that boat, I want to get a tan on those warm Caribbean shores.

 

[Leon]

I feel consoles are all ready effectively dead. They have no purpose other than being a budget mans PC. And now that Sony and Microsoft have ditched exclusives its only Nintendo that still holds anything resembling unique titles and hardware. Consoles like PlayStation and Xbox are already obsolete. They are at a financial disadvantage to platforms like Steam because they have so many physical costs and manufacturing to manage. They've already started pushing systems with no disc function.

And really you can't blame them too much, it's consumers choices, who would rather pay more money for a digital download than the physical game. Sad as it is most people nowadays are content with that and support it.

While i mostly agree with you, your overlooking one thing, it's not the consoles or even the exclusives that make them the most money, it's the licensing fees that do, so if sony does kill the ps5 it's going to lose 20-30% of all game sales profits from game sales.

 

[RIK-C-137]

You watch what they want you to watch.
You see what they want you to see.
You know what they  want you to know.
And if you don't like it
You had better not say anything.

 

[faceless0man]

download the game,get bluray disk , get writer, write the game on the disk ,and then pray that someone makes a emultor with disk support

 

[MasterEn]

I totally feel you. As someone who much prefers collecting physical media this really sucks to see.

As someone who has gone most of my life without access to decent Internet being stuck on really shitty DSL and satellite internet as recently as just a few years ago this push toward a digital-only landscape is kind of frustrating.

Some people just aren't lucky enough to live in an area where they have access to decent Internet to download these 100+ GB games.

free download manager might help you out. it has a resume function built in. sites like the internet archive support that feature, along with the ability to adjust download speeds and simultaneous downloads. you can move files around with it too.

 

[7eve70rd]

Sony owns the patent on Blu-Ray technology, because they created it. There may be a few scattered third-party manufacturers, or maybe some people who already license the technology (probably businesses that Sony has some sort of financial stake in), but they're by far the lion's share of the market.

The "Blu-ray Disc founder group" was started on 20 May 2002 by nine electronic companies: Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, Samsung Electronics and Sony. In order to enable more companies to participate, it announced in May 2004 that it would form the Blu-ray Disc Association, which was inaugurated on 4 October 2004.


Blu-Ray format was frustrating for consumers to adopt. The best player was PS3.

A Blu-Ray PC drive was useless for playing movies on PC. There was terrible software support.

DVD drives had more flexibility and was much more widely adopted and successful.