Subj : Highly profitable
To   : Nightfox
From : Moondog
Date : Tue Jul 19 2022 01:21 pm

 Re: "Highly profitable" Bay S
 By: Nightfox to Kaelon on 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 eve
>  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 f
> tanding is that blu-ray and optical drives have a set of keys stored inside
>
>  Ka> Considering optical media starts to decay in around 20 years, this is n
>  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 qualit
>  Ka> begins to decline.
>
> That's what people say, but I have some old discs that I still haven't had a
> hat I backed up my original 90s BBS onto in 2000, and I was still able to re
>
> For those who have experienced optical media "decay", I have to wonder if th
>
> Nightfox
>

I have some CD's burnt from around 98-2000 that only can be read by a slower
speed cd drive.  i have had some real cheap  discs delaminate though

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