DVDs still exist. DVD players still exist.
so do dvd burners
Where’s MiniDisk?
*MiniDisc.
UMD you mean, i don’t think MiniDisk were ever used to distribute games or even general software.
Data md existed. If it had been included from the beginning, md would have been a killer. As usual, Sony decided to shoot themselves repeatedly in the feet instead.
Not sure it was even used to distribute music. Was decent for copying a CD to it though…
No, music (unless you count Hi-MD) but except for cartridge i see no direct correlation between “games” or “general software” and the picture posted.
One day digital is also going to die and we will be forced to stream games on a crappy service that costs 50$ a month
I feel sad Radio Shack ran out of business bc now you have to be at least 30 years old to know you can still acquire rippers for $10 to rip/burn dvds, cds, and games. I still use my first Xbox and my latest PS5 as DVD players. The most expensive part is storage atp.
Dont lose hope yet. Im (barely) under 30 and have one of those.
Physical mediums aren’t gone - they are just all HDD and SSD now.
I switched from CDs to HDDs two decades ago. HDDs are still great as physical long-term storage.
Your digital is just HDDs and SSDs in someone else’s computers.I’ve still got my tapes.
This weird in context of the show. Skips is the oldest, as an immortal, and would outlive the rest of them. Labeling him as the newest media is off. It’d be more accurate if it were depicted as daguerotype outliving digital.
That one pierces the heart 😭
don’t worry, it will vanish soon and everything will be “in the clouds”
aren’t you excited?
Brother, I have those 40tb raid arrays at home. None of this crap will affect me. Oh and for games I don’t play those. But if I did I would stop buying Sony crap.
Neat!
There are open-source PC games, completely free, and they are awesome.
Do you mind sharing some of your favourites?
OpenTTD for transportation management is a favorite of mine.
Mindustry, Friday Night Funkin’, Xonortic, Luanti(former minetest), doom
There is an awesome list too which has a ton of stuff that would take me ages to list https://github.com/michelpereira/awesome-open-source-games
Wouldn’t that still be digital though? Just not on your computer and not in your direct control?
digital is pure semantics here, we are talking about control
Meanwhile, vinyl is minding its own business…
Turns out pressing PVC into the shape of a sound wave is so cheap and so easy that people won’t stop doing it
It’s not PVC, it’s vinyl.
I was thinking of having a vinyl backup of my current favourite playlist but it’s ten hours long so it could take some time
You’re going to have forearms like tree trunks by the time you’re done.
Only ten hours? Nice. I’m having trouble getting mine below 24.
I want it a nice even 17 hours, but I don’t want to change anything. Yes, I know that doesn’t work.
Just make a larger record, easy.
cheap
🗿
Just need a couple to backup a few terabytes of data
Techmoan has entered the chat
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.
I don’t have a source, but I do believe I’ve already seen articles about multiple studios reducing their bluray releases. I think there was one studio which wanted to completely stop all of them even.
Blu ray video is lossy compressed. Lossless video is huge.
Your mom is lossless.
Yeah she’s a classy lady
It’s still pretty good…but yeah lossless is like 1GB+ for 30 seconds.
Boy does it look good though.
They still make CDs and Blu-Rays you know. The others are obsolete technologies.
And DVDs (movies get released as DVD, BR and UHD4K) and Floppies (New Amiga releases with a physical release) and Cartridges (evercade)
Also cartridges (switch 2)
true, forgot about the switch (2).
It is just a license though
Some of them, not all of them iirc
I think all games, even those in physical media, are licenses to play them, is what OP means. You might be thinking of download carts, which doesn’t contain game data, but makes you download games.
Well yes that’s what I assumed they meant, a non-download cart wouldn’t be just a license, it would be the license and the game data
Right, gotcha. My bad.
I miss HDDVDs. Their better error correction will be missed more, soon, as this stuff degrades a bit.
No error correction could compensate for Warner Brothers discs…
Bluray is higher quality than all the streaming bullshit that’s usually lower than default settings x265. Also for anime the bluray is a great way to support the creator and used as a metric for deciding if a series gets picked up for more releases.
No! Sony bad!
Both of those are dying unfortunately
I like blurays but at some point we need go acknowledge the truth
Time to upgrade to reel-to-reel optical drives
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.
How’s the long-term stability of Blu-Ray? I know we’re running into problems with magnetic tape and CDs degrading.
Magnetic tape depolarizes over time. CDs were organic and they would literally rot away. But as long as your Blu-ray discs are high to low (HTL)/inorganic Then you’re really set for at least 30 years as well, just like professional tape, but at a fraction of the price.
There’s M-Discs which are supposed to last 100 years I’ve heard.
I have 30+ year old CDs still readable.
I also have CDs that are this old. There’s a big difference between CDs that you can burn yourself, because those are using organic materials and the weak laser in your disk drive to burn them and professionally made disks, which are usually using inorganic materials and molds. The molds then are embossed into the datalayer of the CD, making it significantly more durable than organic discs.
all of those are digital
Cassette.
It’s meant to stand for “digital download”, but that’s what you get from trying to shorten everything to one word or less.
cassete tape, zx spectrum style:
modulated digital by same definition
They’re actually all analog, because they all get processed by your senses, which are analog.
But your senses are electrical impulses, which would be digital.
What exactly do you think analog signals are?
Go to your local used game shops! There’s a treasure trove of good shit there.
Last time I was there they had Pokemon Crystal version for over $400, which is probably a fair price but reminded me the used games market is expensive :(
I have never been to a game shop with prices based in reality. They upcharge the hell out of their stuff and it’s insane.
You get lucky sometimes, but you’re right. Some shops are insane. It really depends on what you’re looking for.
Thrift stores used to be pretty good. It was a flat few dollars per game the last time I looked at them.
Yeah, used to. But people figured out years ago that old copies of pokemon go for 100€+ on ebay so they are basically hunting every thrift store or flea markets for elderly mothers who sell their sons stuff who moved out 10 years ago and hasn’t bothered picking his old stuff up.
… all of them priced like brand new games. Some more expensive than their original retail price, thanks to inflation.
At least that’s the case in my local used game shops.
But that’s okay. I can find plenty of booty to plunder on the high seas.
Yeah, a lot of shops have gone off the rails with prices. The same thing happened with the vintage clothing market. All these folks started selling old shirts on eBay for like $50 minimum, and now all of the thrift stores are picked clean, or are selling those items at crazy prices themselves.
I tend to get games that aren’t in the sought after list and get lucky sometimes. You can still find games at thrift stores if you’re lucky. You just have to hunt and be okay with disappointment lol.
Less thanks to inflation and more due to scalpers who will buy them and flip them on ebay if they’re not
You know, I haven’t tried requesting a video game through interlibrary loan and now I kind of want to just to try it. I love inter library loan
Hell, I want to try it now! Especially if you can find games that are generally rare at shops.
i only have one librarian at the local library i dare ask for battletoads. we’ve been friends since about when we were born.
That’s awesome! Hold onto that one. My childhood friends have all scattered to the wind since we all moved away.
well also if she tries to beat me up for being stupid, as i would deserve, my belly is larger than her. i need a large belly for professional reasons.
