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

aren't you excited?

Meanwhile, vinyl is minding its own business...

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.

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

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.

all of those are digital

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

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.

I don't doubt that digital is more accessible and readily available than other formats. The biggest problem is that few services allow me to download locally what I've purchased.

So, for me, you're not buying anything, you're just renting for the long term.

Honestly, I'm tired of buying digital only to suddenly find out I can no longer use what I purchased. For these services, I prefer self-hosting or any method that allows me to have a working copy locally. At least I can decide what to do with the digital content.

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

Cartridges aren't dead yet.

Where's MiniDisk?

Cartridge is alive and well in the Nintendo ecosystem.

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

After digital: Direct brain implantation. IE all your games are stored in memory. And I don't mean RAM. It also isn't YOUR brain.

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

Honestly 90% of the movies we want to watch aren't on Prime (which we happen to have for non-movie-reasons) and we would need extra subscriptions for each of them. It is cheaper and more convenient for us to buy used blu rays or dvds of the movies. It's 3,99€ to rent a movie for 48 hours (best case, usually it is some arthouse subscription) or 2,17€ for the DVD on medimops. We watch during lunch break so we usually can't make it through a movie in 48 hours without stressing. (My spouse does not want to pirate anymore and I support that.)

Our daughter has her own small collection of cartoons and anime that she can choose for a TV treat instead of scrolling through the endless void of the internet.

I love booklets too much to ever let go of CDs.

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

Currently used media are HDD and SSD.

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

DVDs still exist. DVD players still exist.