MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes will also be abandoned.

  • Godnroc@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I did a really quick search and a mechanical hard drive costs around 1$ for 50gb of storage while a blank Blu-ray was closer to 1$ for 25gb of storage. That would suggest a drive is more effective at storing data from a cost perspective, so there just needs to be a service that sells movies in a digital format.

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      4 months ago

      It’s what happened with music eventually, but so far I have not seen that with mainstream video releases, only some independent things

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        4 months ago

        No it didn’t. I don’t know if a single vendor aside from Bandcamp that will sell you the actual files, and let’s be honest their catalogue is pathetic.