[ConservativeMind]

NOOO! I have a nice Sony Blu-Ray.

These need to stay around.

[Red Badger]

Ping!....................

[No name given]

I’m guessing this has something to do with the cult of the climate change crazies.

[Magnum44]

[Magnum44]

I never stepped up to blue-ray. I have many music CD’s and movie DVD’s. On a large screen I have no complaints about DVD quality. Some Blue-Ray movies I have seen on other TV’s look too crisp, almost as if you can tell its a movie set or CGI. The lower definition of a standard CD looks more like the real world to my eyes.

[cross_bearer_02]

It sounds like the headline might be a tad misleading because the article specifically mentions writeable Blu-Ray discs. Given that Sony’s consoles (PS4, PS5) and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X both use Blu-Ray discs for games distributed on physical media (even though technically they’re just used as a key, since they most often don’t have all the contents of the game on the disc), that would be profoundly stupid.

Then again, in the past couple of years, they’ve really been hammering on the accelerator on digital distribution, right along with movies, TV, and basically everything else. So it wouldn’t come as a shock for Sony to declare, “No more discs. 100% digital distribution for everything, and we hold the keys.”

You will own nothing, and by God, you will by happy.

[NorthMountain]

users have realized they don’t really own their digital purchases

Bingo!

Yahtzee!!!

If you don't own the media, guess what buoys and gulls?

YOU DON'T OWN THE CONTENT!!!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The ability to create copies of your library is essential to preservation. And honestly, Blu-Ray is just a great storage format.

Yes. But so is ripping the Blu-Rays you buy to a convenient video format and storing on your RAID array. I just need to hope that they don't stop selling movies on Blu-Ray. Or maybe I don't - I already have nearly every movie I care about stored, and new movies I'd care to watch again are few and far between (Oppenheimer is the only recent exception I can think of).

[TiGuy22]

Streaming... “you will own nothing and like it”. I bet Neil Young fans loved losing their “Neil Young collection” when he left Spotify.

Yes, I stream, but also still play/buy DVDs, CDs, and LPs.

[metmom]

Sure. When they get rid of all the CDs and DVDs etc, then all that's left is streaming and they can control and edit that to their heart's content.

[mewzilla]

It’s not short-sighted.

It’s part of the war on private property and is very well thought out and purposeful.

[cymbeline]

More bits per cubic inch can be stored in a semiconductor, and cheaper with faster access. The DVD might be better archival storage.

[Inyo-Mono]

Sad news, I make HD videos and have been using Sony writable Blu-Ray Discs since 2012, they are the top of line in quality.

[Organic Panic]

GIVE ME MY BETAMAX!!!

Sony killed Betamax and now this !?