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Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left

37 points speckx 1 hour ago 20 comments

gnabgib 1 hour ago | parent

Discussion (41 points,22 hours ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50201821

Strange media sources though:

FlatPanelsHD (5 points, 1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50199610

DarkHorizons (3 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50199874

PushSquare (41 points, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50201821

WheelsAtLarge 1 hour ago | parent

I feel like we need an open source DVD and CD so that they will survive of the long term. Streaming is nice but I don't want to pay monthly fees forever just to hear the music I like.

unfocso 53 minutes ago | parent

You mean, a jailbroken ps3? :)

accrual 31 minutes ago | parent

PS3 is a great Blu-ray player IMO. Solid console, solid controller, good laser implementation. Just pop it in and it Just Works.

Seeing a native Blu-ray (god I hate typing that out) on my then 1080p Panny Plasma was a sight to behold. The quality was fantastic, incredible detail and color in a dark room. I miss the console, the television, and the couch I sat on. All of that is gone. But I still remember the glory of seeing it for the first time.

selectodude 49 minutes ago | parent

I think at this point it’s called vinyl.

0x457 34 minutes ago | parent

Vinyl is far from open source CD due to limitations of phisical format and the fact that good vinyl contains specifically mastered for vinyl with those limitations taken into account.

You can still easily buy Bluray player and open source your discs with ARM (not CPU/SoCs, different one)

ginko 11 minutes ago | parent

If you're referring to the RIAA equalization curve[1] that is completely open and well defined.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization

Avamander 23 minutes ago | parent

I really hope not, there isn't a single redeeming quality to vinyls from any practical point of view.

estebank 12 minutes ago | parent

The big album art?

Avamander 10 minutes ago | parent

I'll give it that, though the size in general is a downside for more people than it is a benefit.

Gravityloss 50 minutes ago | parent

Hard to find a good cassette player nowadays too.

accrual 30 minutes ago | parent

Did you have any particularly good cassette players?

Reason077 31 minutes ago | parent

Pretty wild that even the PS5 still has a blu-ray player and that PS5 games still come on optical discs. No doubt this adds significantly to the costs of both the PS5 hardware and to the costs of game distribution.

I have a feeling the PS6 won’t have an optical drive…

Hamuko 30 minutes ago | parent

Sony has already announced the end of physical games for the PS5. If the PS6 will have an optical drive, it'll be an add-on and only for backwards compatibility purposes. Any kind of a PS6 optical drive will definitely not add significantly to its retail price though.

tonymet 28 minutes ago | parent

and the disks are only used for entitlements, not for the game. when you stick the disk in, the game is downloaded.

Avamander 24 minutes ago | parent

The PS5 optical drive is still incapable of handling Dolby Vision, which is a massive shame.

zerocrates 12 minutes ago | parent

I think it's just that Sony doesn't want to pay to license Dolby Vision, not any actual technical reason.

cowlevel 24 minutes ago | parent

Don't need to guess, they literally told us there will be no more physical media, ever.

tonymet 26 minutes ago | parent

Regulars to 4k forums know that nearly all the 4k players on the market suck, with regular lock-ups. I have a high end sony 4k player , and it crashes with double-layer disks.

4k blu ray player development hasn't had any innovation for 7+ years. The new products are mostly recycling the chips & firmware from years ago. Still java-based and buggy

add-sub-mul-div 22 minutes ago | parent

Unfortunately, people are going to get the future they deserve.