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Sony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitable (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Welp, so only 🏴‍☠️ it is.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

fortunately, this change does not affect Bluray movies you can buy at the store. This is only about recordable Bluray drives, which basically no one uses on a consumer level.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure some people use them for backups.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I'm sure they do, but I feel like even on r/datahoarders, I only ever see people talk about masses of HDDs, tape drives, or cloud storage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

8Tb optical disks don’t exist. Much cheaper to just do spinning-rust or cloud.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

There are dozens of us!