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Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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NathanielK wrote: post #645
bigstrat2003 wrote: post #413

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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.

DVDs have pretty good bitrate, just lower res and old codecs. HD would be nice, but as long as you aren't using an old DVD player with composite, they look ok. Much better than 480p youtube these days.

DVD bitrates are good for the resolution but without a codec that doesn't just waste those bits it doesn't mean anything.

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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runarberg wrote: post #454
bigstrat2003 wrote: post #413

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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.

VHS was bad quality, DVD had good enough. The jump from bad to good enough has a much better impact then from good enough to amazing. While most people will make the switch to go from bad to good enough, not many will make the effort to switch from good enough to amazing, unless they are pushed in that direction. The jump between vinyl and CD was also massive, but vinyl was still good enough. what CDs had though over…

DVDs and VHS are more or less the same resolution. And depending on encode quality some DVDs can be even worse, although unlikely to be a problem for mainstream releases.

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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bakies wrote: post #255
runarberg wrote: post #233

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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).

Yeah bluray is really only necessary for 4k. And dvd probably beats streaming quality

Uhm, no. What are basing this on?

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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Gigachad wrote: post #592
ksjaixjwjx wrote: post #587

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I agree with you wholeheartedly, however, even buying physical games nowadays is a meaningless practice (one that I still do, mind you, physical over digital, that’s me any day). But with the sheer amount of updates, online checks, DLCs and whatnots, our physical media is nothing more than a pretty case to display on the shelves. They can pull the plug on all of that nowadays just as easily as any digital media. The…

Even before the era where physical copies became nothing more than license keys, the copy of the game on the disk was a buggy 1.0 release that was expected to get a day one update. So if the download servers go offline, you’d never be able to download the updates to fix it.

Often those patches used to be installers that could be (and were) re-hosted on fan sites.

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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CM30 wrote: post #165

Well, if Nintendo and Microsoft go the same route (and sadly, I see that being almost inevitable at some point), that's probably the end of my interest in gaming as a whole. I generally refuse to 'rent' or 'license' things on a temporary basis, and have decided in this generation that every game I'll get for Switch 2 will be a physical game on cart version, without exception. And the reasons for that are pretty simpl…

If you care about owning what you buy then why accept consoles in the first place?

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tialaramex wrote: post #242
Uvix wrote: post #200

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Or they’ll just stop “selling” copies in those territories and only allow short-term rentals or monthly subscription services.

One of the EU's backstop "Fuck Trump" options is to stop enforcing America's IP rights. Maybe this USB stick full of MCU movies isn't the highest possible quality and two of the Thor movies are missing for some reason, however it cost less than €20, so who cares ? Oh it's illegal ? Well my government said they don't give a shit about that until you get rid of the orange lunatic In a world where American media compani…

And then the government will give everyone free beer and a unicorn and everyone will live happily ever after.

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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mittensc wrote: post #700
gunsle wrote: post #462

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What's there to like about Trump? And how do those compare against all the negative things he's done/caused so far?

There is disliking Trump and then there is thinking that Trump is so bad that the EU would break international copyright agreements just to spite him.

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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fcsp wrote: post #435

Great buildup on Sony's side to gain trust in this move in the gaming community ahead of this announcement when just this week they again pulled hundreds of "purchased" movies from customer's libraries without refund, reminding everyone that digital content is rented, not owned. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/sony-erases-digital-...

This is fraud: they all know what 'to buy' means to own and they are abusing people with it.

A less scammy terminology must be setup then.

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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amlib wrote: post #438
tapoxi wrote: post #229

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Steam only exists because Valve forced players to install it, force an online activation, and permanently bind their retail copies of Half-Life 2 to a Steam account. They also forced patching which meant in an era of dialup you couldn't play your single player game for hours, and needed to be connected every 30 days or your game would stop working. None of the console manufacturers pulled that shit, that Valve gets a…

They are the only platform owners championing for an open platform. That should be enough to consider them above all others, no trust required.

And "open" platform where they get a 30% cut.
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