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Samsung stops releasing Blu-ray players in the US
Did you notice that Samsung hasn't made a peep about Blu-ray players at CES or other recent trade shows? There's a good reason for it: the company is exiting the category in the US. Samsung told Forbes and CNET that it's no longer introducing Blu-ray players for the country. It didn't provide reasoning for the move, but Forbes sources reportedly said that Samsung had scrapped a high-end model that was supposed to arrive later in 2019.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday February 17 2019, @04:42AM
It would be interesting to see the 12 cm format preserved yet again, and possibly see drives that read everything from CD, DVD, Blu-ray/XL, to new-fangled disc. I'm not saying that a holographic storage medium would necessarily be engineered that way, or even spin at all. But it is, by definition, "optical" storage.
Define "reliability". M-DISC is supposedly much more reliable than normal DVDs and Blu-rays. A new technology could be inherently more reliable. Or it might be worth it to construct the disc out of better materials depending on the $/TB.
If the medium was rewritable and had an absurd capacity, it could be packaged as a hard drive replacement instead of a tray-loaded disc.
Here are some candidates [soylentnews.org]. If we do end up with a spinning optical disc with petabytes or exabytes of storage, we might be able to forgive some inconveniences.
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