▲ 532 ▼ 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) submitted 2 years ago by TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world 142 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) Downgrading from blu-ray to dvd is extremely grim. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ICastFist@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) I guess current codecs can make miracles with 4GB of disk space permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ZiemekZ@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago If I wanted to watch movies destroyed by compression, I'd go streaming. Blu-ray allows for way less compression. There's a reason Blu-ray remuxes aren't DVD-sized. Heck, some movies don't even fit on a single layer Blu-ray! Do you want to compress that to 4.7 GB? And that's only main title, without extras! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) I guess current codecs can make miracles with 4GB of disk space permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ZiemekZ@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago If I wanted to watch movies destroyed by compression, I'd go streaming. Blu-ray allows for way less compression. There's a reason Blu-ray remuxes aren't DVD-sized. Heck, some movies don't even fit on a single layer Blu-ray! Do you want to compress that to 4.7 GB? And that's only main title, without extras! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ZiemekZ@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago If I wanted to watch movies destroyed by compression, I'd go streaming. Blu-ray allows for way less compression. There's a reason Blu-ray remuxes aren't DVD-sized. Heck, some movies don't even fit on a single layer Blu-ray! Do you want to compress that to 4.7 GB? And that's only main title, without extras! permalink fedilink source parent