If Blu-ray is diseapearing, what's left for people who care about media quality? Last time I checked, the quality on legal streaming platform was barely comparable with Blu-ray. Did this improve?
Discussion (41 points,22 hours ago, 14 comments) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50201821">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50201821</a><p>Strange media sources though:<p>FlatPanelsHD (5 points, 1 comment) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50199610">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50199610</a><p>DarkHorizons (3 points) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50199874">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50199874</a><p>PushSquare (41 points, 14 comments) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50201821">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50201821</a>
I feel like we need an open source DVD and CD so that they will survive for the long term. Streaming is nice but I don't want to pay monthly fees forever just to hear the music I like.
So much for the "buy once, watch many" model.<p>Now it's buy continuously through a subscription, watch for as long as the deal remains in place to provide that particular movie on that particular platform, and thrill to having your individual viewing habits tracked, catalogued, and monetized.
Pretty wild that even the PS5 still has a blu-ray player and that PS5 games still come on optical discs. No doubt this adds significantly to the costs of both the PS5 hardware and to the costs of game distribution.<p>I have a feeling the PS6 won’t have an optical drive…
Don't need to guess, they literally told us there will be no more physical media, ever.
The PS5 optical drive is still incapable of handling Dolby Vision, which is a massive shame.
Sony has already announced the end of physical games for the PS5. If the PS6 will have an optical drive, it'll be an add-on and only for backwards compatibility purposes. Any kind of a PS6 optical drive will definitely not add significantly to its retail price though.
and the disks are only used for entitlements, not for the game. when you stick the disk in, the game is downloaded.
Agent of the future will reverse engineer blue rays for you , bingo , order laser , home robot will assemble and read the device .
Regulars to 4k forums know that nearly all the 4k players on the market suck, with regular lock-ups. I have a high end sony 4k player , and it crashes with double-layer disks.<p>4k blu ray player development hasn't had any innovation for 7+ years. The new products are mostly recycling the chips & firmware from years ago. Still java-based and buggy
I have a modern 4k dedicated player and I enjoy the experience once I got audio and video properly configured (which was a surprising pita).<p>You put in the disc, it plays, if you want subtitles you press the subtitles button, that’s it. I never had it hang or anything like that, and there is no bullshit internet connectivity/ads etc.<p>The only thing I’d like improved is better streaming/playing local files.<p>I never encountered any hangs, slowdowns or any other problem really.
Unfortunately, people are going to get the future they deserve.
Hard to find a good cassette player nowadays too.