It was nice while it lasted. I usually borrow games from the library since I don’t really have enough time to play for justifying a 80€ purchase.
Will skip PS6 and probably just not bother with gaming.
Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
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Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
#742With this news, I have to wonder how much longer bluray will live. Will we continue seeing new bluray releases of movies and TV shows for decades, or are their days numbered? The loss of console gaming presumably removes a guaranteed revenue source that was keeping Bluray pressing plants alive. Sales of DVDs and Bluray have been declining for years [1] [3] . Some people have been excited pushing the news that UHD blu…
> With this news, I have to wonder how much longer bluray will live. I hope that physical media sticks around. DVDs and Blu-rays often include something that digital releases don't: director's commentaries, "making of" featurettes, and other extras. For me, it adds a whole new layer of fun to movies I already like.
Personally I'd rather see those bits spent on a better encode of the main feature.
Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
#743Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can at least make local backups of your Steam games. If a game is removed such that you can't even download it anymore, you can always just install it manually.
Steam has DRM,so no. Easily cracked yes, but then you can just go the full pirate route.
Optional DRM, but essentially on by default. Could maybe consider it malicious compliance as its so easy to bypass but still allows them to check the DRM checkbox.
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#744Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do this. I'll buy used disks and rip them to a personal media server. It works great. A friend actually created an eBay bot which monitors listings of disks he wants and will automatically buys them. The ripping part is a bit annoying and time-consuming though. Ironically, it would probably be easier to buy a disk then download a file rather than ripping.
I've been doing this as well. Occasionally I'll have a disc that fails to rip for some reason (maybe my drive is more sensitive to defects than my player is, or there's some stupid copy protection scheme), and then I'll torrent it. Torrenting is always easier and faster, though it's hard to find special features this way.
> maybe my drive is more sensitive to defects than my player is, or there's some stupid copy protection scheme
FYI for UHD disks in particular common ripping software does not include "player" keys (because they are hard to come by and would be blocked by future releases) but only the disc-specific decryption keys. This means that new releases can't be ripped until someone submits a dump of the copy protection data, which can sometimes take a while if you don't do it yourself.
Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
#745Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't imagine content owners wanting the physical media to continue any longer than they can get away with. The control they have from digital only must make them feel so powerful. At least as long as everyone continues to buy into their DRM systems. I've recently looked into purchasing a dedicated 4K Blu-ray player to start building a disc collection again. I'm assuming there's some pretty decent deals in the used…
> The control they have from digital only must make them feel so powerful. I hope they continue to feel this way. WEBDL can come faster.
I'd much rather get releases that are NOT bit-starved crap optimized for streaming company profits.
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#746Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is that? Vinyl has some unique characteristics. But as far as I’m aware, blu-ray is just a storage format for bits, so other than the box art, what is compelling about a blu-ray pressing?
The movie itself is generally encoded at a higher bitrate than what you can find in streaming or torrents. The media includes bonus features that generally aren't available in streaming or torrents. The media will not suddenly stop existing if some server breaks down, some company goes under or some contract expires. The movie will not suddenly get "patched" with an AI-upscale or censored scene one day while watching…
Also, you can import blu-rays from other countries when streaming releases have geo restrictions.
Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
#747just to add - the only way I was able to play Last of US 2 - was buying the PS4 version and playing it on my PS5. now that avenue is closed. :(
I did the same thing with Ghost of Tsushima because I heard that the PS5 version had performance problems.
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My local library never made the jump to Blu-Ray and still only has DVDs. They have physical copies of video games too though.
I don’t know the stats but I would guess more people have DVD players then Blu-Ray, so it makes sense for libraries to rather offer DVDs. DVDs is also one of these things that is good enough. The jump in quality between DVD and Blu-Ray is very unnoticeable (when fully immersed) compared to e.g. between VHS and DVD (or even between vinyl and CD).
That is very much not true and even less true when the blu-ray release comes from a new master that isn't limited by older technology.
Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
#749Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t know the stats but I would guess more people have DVD players then Blu-Ray, so it makes sense for libraries to rather offer DVDs. DVDs is also one of these things that is good enough. The jump in quality between DVD and Blu-Ray is very unnoticeable (when fully immersed) compared to e.g. between VHS and DVD (or even between vinyl and CD).
The jump in quality from DVD to Blu-ray is huge , as much as it was from VHS to DVD. Going to 4k from there isn't noticeable, but going to HD in the first place is massive.
4K is still a noticeable increase but, yes, much less so than going from NTSC/PAL resolutions (sometimes even halved horizontally due to interlacing) to 1080p.
Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
#750Earlier quoted context omitted.
Walking away from the closed platform you invested hundreds/thousands of dollars into over the years is a luxury (especially if you were mislead into buying a PS5 with a disc drive thinking it'd be supported at least until the end of the product's lifespan) Monopolies, anti-competitive behavior, and anti-consumer behavior in general are all bad bad bad. You have to be a very interesting individual to disagree with th…
> especially if you were mislead into buying a PS5 with a disc drive thinking it'd be supported at least until the end of the product's lifespan 8 years is roughly the lifespan for a games console though. And I say this as someone who hates Sony perhaps more than most, having lived through their the CD rootkit and PS3 OtherOS debacles. And been burned by their substandard yet overpriced audio equipment.
Game consoles are not biological beasts which decay as a matter of nature or fact.
They are tools, toys, they are devices. I can still play my PS1 as before, I just need to pop in a CD and I'm good to go.