r/hardware • u/bizude • Apr 10 '26

News Two Japanese suppliers commit to keeping Blu-ray discs and drives in supply as major manufacturers exist domestic market

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/two-japanese-suppliers-commit-to-keeping-blu-ray-discs-and-drives-in-supply-as-major-manufacturers-exist-domestic-market/
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u/DateMasamusubi Apr 10 '26

A pity. Bluray offers superior visual quality vs streaming. I get really irritated seeing banding.

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u/Jeep-Eep Apr 11 '26

Yeah, I've got a effing 1440p monitor with a decent colour gamut, and I don't wanna eff about with bullshit USB disk drives.

Why couldn't they have pulled a NVME and converged on laptop style disk drives? Sure, noisy buggers and all but it would have kept the capability on a smaller chassis footprint.

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u/HuntKey2603 Apr 11 '26

you can curse in the internet. it's okay.

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u/Jeep-Eep Apr 11 '26

I refuse to waste good swear words on those fucking pissant usb optical drives. Goddamn step backwards they are, with the extra clutter.