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After 18 years, Sony's Blu-ray media production draws to a close — shuts its last factory in Feb

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After 18 years, Sony's recordable Blu-ray media production draws to a close — will shut last factory in Feb (Updated)

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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.
  
  Optical media is not long term. Hurry up to backup your DVD videos and games, before you can't anymore.
- 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!
I'm one of like 5 people on the planet who still uses his minidisc player. I've bought some of the blank minidiscs Sony was still making. Seeing them finally end production hurts. I have a bunch of minidiscs already, but I feel like I should stock up before prices go nuts.
- I had a minidisc stereo in like, idk, 1998? That was an awesome piece of tech.
  It was the physical mp3
- I had a minidisc for years. Quickly got replaced by chip based MP3 players.
  I still liked my discs because I could swap and play more music.
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.

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