@mwfc @NanoRaptor They thought they figured it out...

@mwfc @NanoRaptor They thought they figured it out and came up with Blu-ray, beating the HDDVD.

Unfortunately they're still greedy so once again it had no chance against even USB sticks in anything but a specific market. So it became a niche product once more (not as hard as last time, but still…).

Like 27 Dec 2023 at 23:25 | Wall-to-wall | Open on chaos.social

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Helgi Crookehorne

@Natanox @mwfc @NanoRaptor I have a thumbnail sized USB flash drive, and it looks 10 GB more than double layer Blu-ray disk so of course they can't compete with that if people have a PC with USB

28 Dec 2023 at 2:24 | Open on 101010.pl

Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

@Helgi @mwfc @NanoRaptor Nowadays, yeah. There would've been potential for more though, the licensing costs of those discs just weren't worth it.

28 Dec 2023 at 3:13 | Open on chaos.social

Helgi Crookehorne

@Natanox @mwfc @NanoRaptor Sony just made use of those disks in their own Playstation, sometimes people can't just download 100 Gb of a game with their slow internet connection

28 Dec 2023 at 3:29 | Open on 101010.pl

…might work for coffee…

@Natanox
Yeah. In the 90s it had a niche until ca 2005 where it just was superior and limited needlessly.
Flash was just too expensive back then. I even had iomega click drives because cheaper than CF cards.
@NanoRaptor

28 Dec 2023 at 5:54 | Open on chaos.social

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