the whole point is to stop you from owning physical media so they can arbitrarily raise prices by creating artificial cause and demand through artificial scarcity.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2024
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anyone remember when the argument for digital goods was " We wont have to waste money on boxes, printing, media, storage, or shipping! So your goods will be cheaper than ever, and everyone will still get a more profitable cut!"
Pepperidge farm Remembers, because Pepperidge farm called bullshit on the argument back at the very start, and said they would get rid of physical media, not lower prices, and that we would lose ownership of our purchases... and the internet poopoo'd me to hell in back calling me paranoid and stupid for it.
and look where we are.
and its so goddamn fucked up I don't even get a single molecule of serotonin from being right about it.
I dunno. Steam did it well enough. I was buying cheap games for years. I could get a kick ass GOTY game for like $5 while GameStop was still selling it used on consoles for $20.
You do realize you don't "own" anything on Steam right? Every dollar you give them is towards a "subscription" to play the game.
While companies like Nintendo continually kill off game accessibility, Steam doesn't really take away games from anyone. Digital distribution may not be ownership, but Steam in particular hasn't given reason to worry.
For now but one day some corporation will buy Steam and turn into the endshitcation like all the rest.
Until that time will try to enjoy it while we can.
This is why I buy from GOG
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That makes this even more depressing. Sailing the high seas is the life for me.
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Welp... There goes physical media...
Yep, I'm sure it'll be gone Verbatim.
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I always preferred the rips fork Blu rays though. They had the highest quality video and audio and stuff. This sucks so much =(
EDIT: I just read someone else's comment that although they developed it they don't own it outright so that makes me feel a little better that hopefully other people can still make them.
It’s just one company, it’s not all the Blu-ray production stopping. I think the last time I bought any Sony recordable media was CD-Rs for my MP3 CD player in the mid 00s.
Sony owns the blu-ray format. I'm worried.
They do not own it, they did co-develop it. They’ve never owned it outright.
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Keep in mind that though this is a blow to the industry, it's not like optical media is just yet dead. Hell, there are still new releases to DVDs coming out today.
Space jam 3! And independent film featuring bugs 🐛 and a 🐇 bunny. The Matrix Housing Crisis.... A film featuring Keanu as the one. He doesn't collect enough retirement money so he's out there pushing a cart. We saw a preview of him in "the matrix". That bum in the subway... anyway good movie 😂.
So that they can fully control the fate of digital media for "normal" people. Better not lapse on that subscription or fail to upgrade to the latest Sony TV... "Your" media library might not like that, be a shame if you lost access to those pretty titles you love..
thin laptops and LED Disco Cases killed CD-readers anyways. it's a shame to loose a cheap way of making media archives, but it is what it is.
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I’ll be sure to buy extras, since it’s clear this is yet another push towards the consumer market not deserving to own their media.
MiniDisks too? Nooo!
Wow I'm having a hard time believing that Sony of all people would abandon a technology
Damn. I was just starting to rebuild my physical catalog so I could get away from streaming.
Keep doing it. Especially niche titles.
You think I can find tv shows like greg the bunny, or clerks the animated series? And then TV shows start retroactively saying whats ok to show and whats not. Then pulling the episodes from streaming.
Or maybe the rights run out, and no other streaming picks it up.
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Right as I'm getting into minidisc too
Eyyy yes! I just picked up an MZ-N505 a few months ago! It's been great at work to quickly start music without staring at my phone for 5 minutes first.
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i can't even remember the last time i saw an optical disc. it must be several years.
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