For those who don’t know, there has been somewhat of an uproar due to Playstation’s announcement about stopping making disks.
For those who don’t know, there has been somewhat of an uproar due to Playstation’s announcement about stopping making disks.
And even dedicated BD players are seemingly on the way out as most of the major manufacturers either severely pared or discontinued player production outright, assuming they’re even in the home AV business anymore to begin with.
Sony just has one model each for a 1080p and 4K BD player, I don’t know what Panasonic is up to with their players if they even make anymore, and beyond that, boutique videophile brands like Magnetar and Reavon were still making players last time I checked, but they’re ludicrously expensive.
Assuming Sony discontinues their dedicated disc players and moves exclusively to streaming boxes, they’ll be done with physical media forever. And I’m still surprised they even make traditional AVRs and speakers and didn’t kill those in favor of a couple soundbars yet.
Exactly!
It’s just Sony, look at Nintendo. They are trying to transition from cartridge to code for digial downloads. Steam has exploded the last 10 years and everything is digital
It’s not a bad thing, tech is just evolving. People can make the comparison to cartridges when disk based consoles came out.
Its a bad thing for two reasons:
That being said I have no issue with digital only, we just need legislation that forces some form of “ownership” beyond just a license.
The fifth part has an asterisk: Access can still be denied for physical copies, too. The Crew was proof of this, not to mention all the old G4WL CD titles which are effectively paperweights because their DRM is defunct and there’s no crack yet for a lot if them if there ever will be any, and as for BD movies, in theory the studios could revoke AACS keys for a given group of media and render those media into coasters as well.
Audio CDs are DRM-free at least so they’re pretty much immune to that, but if Sony had their way with their rootkit DRM and didn’t get successfully sued over it, audio CDs would be DRM-encumbered too, thankfully they didn’t get their way and did get successfully sued over it so audio CDs remain DRM-free to this day so you could rip them to FLAC and do as you wish with that copy.