Bluray is still alive and well because its the only format that has full quality basically 1:1 media encodes which ironically make up the backbone of full quality media piracy.

No streaming service will ever support 70Gb+ file sizes because they never bothered to implement multicast so it would shred their bandwidth or rely on predownloading which would shred the tiny local storage included on most smart TVs.

You could of course use jellyfin or any other file share protocol to DIY, but you'd better have a stable 100Mbps minimum upload/download speed lol.

Some of them are still around just not as big anymore

All of these media are digital! Only digital is no medium but an encoding scheme.

Currently used media are HDD and SSD.

I know that's not what you meant... But those are all digital...

cartridges aren't dead. are you stupid? nintendo is alive and well and uses cartridges in both switch and switch 2. bluray also isn't dead

My personal conspiracy theory is that Sony is trying to kill Blu-ray before it enters public domain. (2028-2030 or so). Single-layer Blu-rays are invaluable for my cold storage backups. So I'm going to keep buying them. And thanks to them, entering public domain, innovation will be possible once again. So, in all honesty, I don't have that much to fear, as mega corporations also use blu-rays heavily for backups, together with tape.

True, but there's bad digital like Amazon Video, and good digital like GOG.

Go to your local used game shops! There’s a treasure trove of good shit there.

Pirated digital backups.

I still buy any new music on CD and regularly buy DVDS. I buy more new DVDs than Blu-ray actually.

At some point does it make sense to use Blu Rays?

I have a No Man’s Sky disk. Like 5% of the code on that disk is in the production game today. It’s online only, so I couldn’t even play it with the disk.

Cartridges do kinda make sense, you could patch the game on them (in theory), they can come in much larger sizes than disks too.

Side note: modern gaming is shit.

I bought Spyro and couldn’t even play it without agreeing to a privacy policy. It’s a single player offline game from the PS1 era. I installed The Sims 4, I can’t even play without an EA account. I tried Assassin’s Creed and you need an Ubisoft account to open the game.

Shit is fucking stupid.

Meanwhile, vinyl is minding his own business...

They still make CDs and Blu-Rays you know. The others are obsolete technologies.

don't worry, it will vanish soon and everything will be "in the clouds"

aren't you excited?

Cartridges aren't dead yet.

Sure pal, yea, cd is dead.......

CD

DVD

BlueRay

All of these were digital media.

My library is still lending cd dvd and blueray…

And i am still ripping them all to use on a digital consumer device thanks to a specific local law that ruled people who own an mp3 player can rip cds from libraries to listen on the go.

missing the next guy to the right "subscription"