#opticaldisc — Public Fediverse posts

Tangible versus Virtual. Here's a great example of how the promise of streaming has been betrayed by cartelized corporate greed. First photo is my recently delivered box set of "The Expanse", 19 DVD's all for $32.40 USd including tax & shipping. Second photo is the cost to stream all 6 seasons contained in the DVD set, from Fandango at $59.99.

I acquired a bit ago a nicely working DVD/BluRay/CD player with HDMI & spdif audio outputs for $15 from my local Goodwill, hooked into the 55" display & big speakers in my studio, for a home theater vibe. Nice thing is that it is also easy to rip DVD's to digital video files, and with Jellyfin on my OpenMediaVault server, easy to stream to other devices too. Versus a bigger payment for just a corporation's potentially rescinded promise towards future viewing access.

Once upon a time, given the relative costs of materials/time/energy/labor needed to create tangible formats like optical discs, made one of the big selling points of streaming, besides obvious 'convenience', was that it was almost always less expensive for the consumer. While streaming certainly has costs to produce - needing lots of servers for encoding & hosting, and CDN's for the streaming - this should still end up being a fraction per stream compared to what it takes to manufacture, package & deliver optical discs made out of plastics and metals. So seems to me what we've seen of late is the media corporations raising in concert rates for streaming, with profit margins on these ballooning, while the last of the optical disc manufacturing plants, have reduced their profit margins to the bare minimum. The result is an inversion in pricing between the tangible & virtual options for many releases now. And for those of us interested in lasting & ready access to specific works of art, and for those of us that value "digital sovereignty", against a marketing system working to make these things more scarce, the tangible options are looking increasingly attractive.

Ok optical drive fans, maybe you can help me. Over the years I’ve found some older optical drives, be it CD, DVD and now BRD, where they won’t want to open unless you help with with something like a paperclip in the little hole. But then with a disc inside it opens and closes perfectly everything time. I’ve already cleaned the pulleys and replaced the belt and that didn’t fix it. I’ve looked online and not been able to find a solution. Anyone know what causes this? #opticaldisc #retrocomputing

@gnuplusmatt

Would be wonderful, if we were able to do the same with videos on DVD, or Blueray.

#TIL #KDE #audiocd #ripping #music #opticaldisc #Linux #tech #deadformats

#TIL that you can rip an audio CD in #KDE just by opening it in dolphin and copying out the folder named for the format you want it in.

These are a set of virtual folders that represent the formats supported by your system to rip them into.

How cool is that?

#audiocd #ripping #music #opticaldisc #Linux #tech #deadformats

Meet The Optical Data Format You’ve Never Heard Of Before https://hackaday.com/2024/10/10/meet-the-optical-data-format-youve-never-heard-of-before/ #opticaldiscarchive #opticaldiscstorage #HackadayColumns #archivalstorage #Retrocomputing #archivestorage #fiberchannel #opticaldisc #archive #sony

Meet The Optical Data Format You’ve Never Heard Of Before - You consider yourself a power user. You’ve got lots of files, and damn it, you lik... - https://hackaday.com/2024/10/10/meet-the-optical-data-format-youve-never-heard-of-before/ #opticaldiscarchive #opticaldiscstorage #hackadaycolumns #archivalstorage #retrocomputing #archivestorage #fiberchannel #opticaldisc #archive #sony

Ars asks: What was the last CD or DVD you burned? - Enlarge / This is one method of burning a disc. (credit: 1001slide / Ge... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2042118 #applesuperdrive #opticalmedia #discburning #opticaldisc #staffsource #superdrive #cdburning #biz⁢ #dvd-rw #staff #cd-rw #dvd-r #cd-r #dvd #cd

It's so sad that Dataplay Discs never took off and are nowadays are very very rare thing to even find information about. It would be such a nice storage medium for my hobby game console I have plans sitting around somewhere.

#hardware #lostmedia #losttechnology #technology #opticaldisc #dataplay #resurrectdataplayplease

Sony To Gradually Cease Recordable Optical Disc Production #cessation #hardware #japan #opticaldisc #production #sony

https://www.lowyat.net/2024/325699/sony-cease-recordable-disc-production/