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Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.(mainichi.jp)

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Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
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Sony owns the blu-ray format. I’m worried.

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deranger@sh.itjust.works
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They do not own it, they did co-develop it. They’ve never owned it outright.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association

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mindlight@lemm.ee
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Why are you worried about Sony owning the blu-ray format?

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Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
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If they’re decreasing their production, it could mean that physical media is ending. If so, that fucking sucks because you can’t own anything anymore

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deranger@sh.itjust.works
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What? No. If I write data to a Blu-ray it’s not encrypted. This comment makes little sense. Sony does not control “the encryption keys”, whatever that means.

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mindlight@lemm.ee
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You really don’t understand how Blu-ray works, do you?

Regarding Blu-ray as a medium for movies: Sony isn’t able do that kind of damage.

Blu-ray Association would go bananas:

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AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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There’s still the super-DVDs, or whatever they were called.

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Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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mega-discs

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You thought blu ray sales would just continue forever?

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