I haven’t used them in years, but it still makes me sad. Had lots of nostalgia for them. RIP.

As long as the AGPL remains enforcable.

I see.

I thought the whole point of crypto/blockchain technologies was to avoid government regulations?

EDIT: Never mind, they’re suing because the SEC declared them as securities, which the artists don’t want.

I switched to Proton Mail in 2019, and recently started switching to their VPN service to use port forwarding. Glad to see Proton is putting their money where their mouth is.

JPEG2000 is still used in movie theaters.

“Yo dawg, I heard you like adblockers…”

Thanks, fixed.

Good job, everyone!

An AI walks into a bar and I'm sorry but I cannot fulfil this request as it goes against OpenAI's use policy and encourages unethical behavior.

Ah, gotcha. It’s annoying when people use “DVD” as a catch-all term for all optical media.

They’re talking about 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, which was introduced in 2016. The video is still compressed, but it’s still much higher quality than DVD and Blu-ray, and can hold 60-100 GB of data.

That’s true, but the DVD-Video standard only supports MPEG-2 at 720x576 (PAL), or 720x480 (NTSC).

Sure, you can put a 1080p AVC-encoded video on a DVD formatted as a data disc, but it won’t play on a DVD player.

while DVDs are 576p-720p

576p is the absolute maximum. Most DVDs are actually 480p.

This is what the inside of a Redbox kiosk looks like:

It’s just consumer writeable. Blu-ray movies will be fine, and other companies will be manufacturing consumer writeable Blu-rays as well.

Backing up personal data, mostly stuff from my childhood that is irreplacable. Sure, I could just put them on a HDD, but then I’d have to replace it every 5-10 years. Data stored on Blu-ray can last a long time.

Don’t fret, Verbatim will still be making recordable BD-Rs. However, this will mean that there will be no more 128GB BD-Rs, we’ll be stuck with only 100GB BD-Rs (Sony is the only company that makes 128GB Blu-rays).

I recently ordered a pack of 128GBs from Japan. I’d recommend you do the same, because the prices are gonna skyrocket.

Queen - Another One Bites the Dust