This is only for recordable BD-Rs, Blu-ray movies will not be affected.
So it is one option less to store data long term and inaccessible to covert internet surviallance, but only the plebs are restricted.
using optical media for long term storage is quite a bad idea. Especially R/RW media. They tend to (although not always) degrade quite quickly
I wa going to suggest tape drives for long term archiving, but after looking, holy shit are they expensive for some reason. I’ve used them at work but I guess I’ve never actually seen the price tag.
I don’t even know what to say about this mess, but yes: that’s enterprise pricing. It doesn’t need to be that way, but it can be because those are the kind of prices you can charge businesses. And really, just as a pleasant capitalistic side effect of this, is that the lower classes are completely locked off form this technology. It’s not a mystery, it’s not a conspiracy, it’s business. And I hate it.
It’s a media that contains what a USB drive does. That’s great for one movie, not really as a slow data storage device.
They should invent a USB drive in the form factor of a DVD
Since it rotates so fast, the bits would get pushed out much quicker!
Trouble is that pushing the bytes on will be really difficult.
I think it is so sad because It is end of the nice era.
I have never once bought a physical blueray, or used one that isn’t digital.
Blurays are all digital
Same with DVD and CDs. We haven’t had non-digital mass media for decades, except I guess vinyl for collectors.
