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[–] 0x0@programming.dev 208 points 4 months ago (34 children)

We must cut all options for the end user to own anything, let'em pay subscriptions instead.

In a SONY board meeting, probably.

[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Different divisions. This is more akin to when Sony decided to stop making floppy disks. The market is there for now, but it's just not worth it from a financial perspective.

The amount of people burning their own blu rays is minimal. Even the type of people who emphasize owning their own content just use a NAS system.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is more akin to when Sony decided to stop making floppy disks. The market is there for now, but it’s just not worth it from a financial perspective.

Ironically Japan is just now phasing out floppies, so there'll still be a market for a while.

A NAS is mostly geared for online media storage, whereas disks are for offline.

[–] BlueMacaw@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

That's just the government though, similar to how a lot of the systems in the US still run on COBOL (including the IRS).

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