For those who don’t know, there has been somewhat of an uproar due to Playstation’s announcement about stopping making disks.
For those who don’t know, there has been somewhat of an uproar due to Playstation’s announcement about stopping making disks.
And even dedicated BD players are seemingly on the way out as most of the major manufacturers either severely pared or discontinued player production outright, assuming they’re even in the home AV business anymore to begin with.
Sony just has one model each for a 1080p and 4K BD player, I don’t know what Panasonic is up to with their players if they even make anymore, and beyond that, boutique videophile brands like Magnetar and Reavon were still making players last time I checked, but they’re ludicrously expensive.
Assuming Sony discontinues their dedicated disc players and moves exclusively to streaming boxes, they’ll be done with physical media forever. And I’m still surprised they even make traditional AVRs and speakers and didn’t kill those in favor of a couple soundbars yet.
Exactly!
It’s just Sony, look at Nintendo. They are trying to transition from cartridge to code for digial downloads. Steam has exploded the last 10 years and everything is digital
It’s not a bad thing, tech is just evolving. People can make the comparison to cartridges when disk based consoles came out.
Its a bad thing for two reasons:
That being said I have no issue with digital only, we just need legislation that forces some form of “ownership” beyond just a license.