True, but there’s bad digital like Amazon Video, and good digital like GOG.
My personal conspiracy theory is that Sony is trying to kill Blu-ray before it enters public domain. (2028-2030 or so). Single-layer Blu-rays are invaluable for my cold storage backups. So I’m going to keep buying them. And thanks to them, entering public domain, innovation will be possible once again. So, in all honesty, I don’t have that much to fear, as mega corporations also use blu-rays heavily for backups, together with tape.
I still buy any new music on CD and regularly buy DVDS. I buy more new DVDs than Blu-ray actually.
Me two! Except without the Cds or Dvds or buying
Go to your local used game shops! There’s a treasure trove of good shit there.
I have never been to a game shop with prices based in reality. They upcharge the hell out of their stuff and it’s insane.
… all of them priced like brand new games. Some more expensive than their original retail price, thanks to inflation.
At least that’s the case in my local used game shops.
But that’s okay. I can find plenty of booty to plunder on the high seas.
Pirated digital backups.
With storage redundancy, of course. Because eventually, your hard drive will fail.
At some point does it make sense to use Blu Rays?
I have a No Man’s Sky disk. Like 5% of the code on that disk is in the production game today. It’s online only, so I couldn’t even play it with the disk.
Cartridges do kinda make sense, you could patch the game on them (in theory), they can come in much larger sizes than disks too.
Side note: modern gaming is shit.
I bought Spyro and couldn’t even play it without agreeing to a privacy policy. It’s a single player offline game from the PS1 era. I installed The Sims 4, I can’t even play without an EA account. I tried Assassin’s Creed and you need an Ubisoft account to open the game.
Shit is fucking stupid.
Cartridges do kinda make sense, you could patch the game on them (in theory), they can come in much larger sizes than disks too.
If AI wasn’t making SSD prices so outrageous right now, an SSD-based cartridge system would make a lot of sense. They could be made in a variety of sizes, to accommodate games with different filesystem footprints, and if the SSDs in them have tolerable performance, they could be played directly off the cartridge, without needing to ‘install’ anything – just insert and go.
Blu-ray for movies are great, they can store a lot more that DVDs
Meanwhile, vinyl is minding his own business…
Just need a couple to backup a few terabytes of data
Turns out pressing PVC into the shape of a sound wave is so cheap and so easy that people won’t stop doing it
I was thinking of having a vinyl backup of my current favourite playlist but it’s ten hours long so it could take some time
You’re going to have forearms like tree trunks by the time you’re done.
cheap
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They still make CDs and Blu-Rays you know. The others are obsolete technologies.
Bluray is higher quality than all the streaming bullshit that’s usually lower than default settings x265. Also for anime the bluray is a great way to support the creator and used as a metric for deciding if a series gets picked up for more releases.
And DVDs (movies get released as DVD, BR and UHD4K) and Floppies (New Amiga releases with a physical release) and Cartridges (evercade)
I miss HDDVDs. Their better error correction will be missed more, soon, as this stuff degrades a bit.
Also cartridges (switch 2)
true, forgot about the switch (2).
It is just a license though
Some of them, not all of them iirc
Both of those are dying unfortunately
I like blurays but at some point we need go acknowledge the truth
No! Sony bad!
Cartridges aren’t dead yet.
Sure pal, yea, cd is dead…
don’t worry, it will vanish soon and everything will be “in the clouds”
aren’t you excited?
Brother, I have those 40tb raid arrays at home. None of this crap will affect me. Oh and for games I don’t play those. But if I did I would stop buying Sony crap.
Neat!
My library is still lending cd dvd and blueray…
And i am still ripping them all to use on a digital consumer device thanks to a specific local law that ruled people who own an mp3 player can rip cds from libraries to listen on the go.
thanks to a specific local law
Following local laws? Don’t be a pussy. Upload those cd and dvd rips to Pirate Bay.
Its not that i care personally but its nice to know i am legally protected and my library isn’t going to care with how often we come lend new a new stack.
CD
DVD
BlueRay
All of these were digital media.
Cartridge and floppies are also digital.
Even if they’re pressed?
Yes? All the data is still digital
missing the next guy to the right “subscription”
Regular Show has multiple episodes about this exact topic.
