• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    423·
    1 month ago

    I think it’s hilarious that Sony was so scared of Bluray failing and becoming another Betamax that they basically bought out any future from under HD-DVD which probably would have been more successful (like VHS).

    In the end, streaming won the day and Blurays are already a thing of the past.

    To be clear, the first Blurays were coming out in June 2006, Netflix began internet streaming in January 2007, barely six months later.

    Whoopsie doodles Sony you fucking idiots.

    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      541·
      1 month ago

      Blurays are still way better than streaming though, especially the UHD ones. Bitrate is always way higher and the audio is noticeably crisper in my opinion.

      I still regularly buy Blu rays, but it has to be for a specific kind of film or one of my favourites.

      • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        There’s caveats to that these days. Official streaming, in practice, sure. But with a debrid/similar service and sufficient bandwidth, you can pirate stream files with equivalent quality to uncompressed Blurays

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 month ago

    Are you talking about Betamax, ATRAC3, MemoryStick, Video8, Digital8, UMD, MiniDisc or BluRay?

  • LiamBox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    1 month ago

    Bluray rips are the best, sadly it consumes too much bandwith and energy.

  • remotelove@lemmy.ca
    6·
    1 month ago

    I wonder what their answer is going to be for Dolby Atmos? I am sure they could think of a another protocol that is just as pointless for your standard TV sound sticks.

        • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
          91·
          1 month ago

          Dolby Atmos is a surround sound technology. The most basic speaker setup for it is 5.1.2: 5 = front left and right, centre, rear left and right 1 = subwoofer (bass box) 2 = ceiling speakers

          So a soundbar - a single block sat in the centre below the screen - claiming to do immersive surround sound is up there with gold-plated fibreoptic leads.

          • remotelove@lemmy.ca
            4·
            1 month ago

            To add on, it supports up to 20.1.10 and that is where the protocol may shine. However, full spacial sound is not new, and Atmos is just Sony’s proprietary version.

            I stole the “sound stick” bit from Benn Jordans blunt overview on atmos: https://youtu.be/5Dw3aKbw5Wo

            (Atmos is all caps as well? Meh, whatever.)

  • HStone32@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 month ago

    As an incurable optimist, I look forward to the day digitally licensed media goes under, and analog media makes its grand return

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 month ago

    Desperately recreating the last shitstorm that happened to go their way.

    Kinda worked for Blu-Ray copying VHS vs Betamax, did not work for PS3 copying PS1/PS2 vs everything else.