Subj : Highly profitable
To : Kaelon
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Jul 18 2022 08:05 am
Re: "Highly profitable" Bay Street Video store n Toronto thrives
By: Kaelon to Nightfox on Sat Jul 16 2022 06:23 pm
Ka> We're the same person. ;) And I, too, assumed that flash-disks or USB
Ka> drives would have gone mainstream and replaced optical drives, but the
Ka> entertainment industry is obsessed with digital rights management and
Ka> getting all of the TV manufacturers to align on the same proprietary
Ka> format would be madness. So, today, pretty much every TV can decode every
Ka> format via USB inserted media, but if a publisher or distributor wants
Ka> DMR, they're fresh out of luck.
Recently I was thinking that if they did start to distribute movies on USB flash drives or similar, perhaps they'd have made special media players you'd have to use to play them (similar to a blu-ray drive, but would take flash media instead). My understanding is that blu-ray and optical drives have a set of keys stored inside that they use to decrypt the movies, and such a player for flash media could work the same way.
Ka> Considering optical media starts to decay in around 20 years, this is no
Ka> longer a theoretical. Any DVD or Blu-Ray purchased at the start of the
Ka> millenium is nearing its end-of-life. Best to rip it soon before quality
Ka> begins to decline.
That's what people say, but I have some old discs that I still haven't had any problem with. I have a DVD movie I purchased a little over 20 years ago, and I just watched it again a couple months ago and it didn't have any problems. I also have a CD-R that I backed up my original 90s BBS onto in 2000, and I was still able to read it recently.
For those who have experienced optical media "decay", I have to wonder if those discs were stored somewhere that was too warm or perhaps in sunlight or something.
Nightfox
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