You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Years ago, for a while I had an external Blu-Ray drive, but I’ve never seen an actual Blu-Ray disc in my life.

    And this is coming from a nerd that’s repaired thousands of electronic devices.

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      4 months ago

      It just looks like a DVD, with a slightly purple tint. All Blu-Rays are is DVDs with denser data encoding.

      You probably have had one or two and not known about it, most games consoles use blu-rays now as well.

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        4 months ago

        I’m very familiar with the technology, the discs indeed are a slightly different color, and the drives have an entirely separate extra lens and laser assembly to read them.

        And BTW, DVD-R is purple.

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      4 months ago

      You worked for poor people. Every single high end media room I’ve seen (3 lol) has been powered via blue ray. People with nice TVs have known streaming is garbage for years now.

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        4 months ago

        I worked for hotel owners with their own high tech theater upstairs. They had everything, it was wicked cool!

        They had everything, except Blu-Ray. They had DVDs and streaming.