Re:The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk
by hnlmorg on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @04:13AM
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The GP was on about writable Blu-ray Discs specifically. Writable CDs and DVDs were common place.
They said BD-R. Blu-ray. Not many computers have Blu-ray drives compared to DVD.
Re:The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk
by Rinzler89 on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @04:14AM
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Oh right, my bad. Though around the 2010s IIRC many laptops even on the budget end were being sold with BD reader combo drives.
I held a portable USB3 Blu-Ray reader in my hand once.
I could have used it, too, but I could not think of anything I wanted to do with it by that time in 2017 -- seven years ago -- despite my proclivity for making backups of films.
BD on a PC has never been common in my world of computing, and by 2017 optical drives in general were becoming very uncommon in everyone's world.
It never broadly caught on.
Re:The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk
by bombcar on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @08:48AM
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Just at the time Blu-ray would have made sense for computers everything went to downloads. I bought many games that came on CD or DVD but the only ones that ever came on Blu-ray were for console.
And even those are mostly download now.
I beg to differ. In the 2000s and part of 2010s everyone had optical media readers at home or in the office. In my EU country, radiology offices still use DVDs to share or hand you over your X-ray/CT/MRI images that you can then share with your dentist/GP/specialist for diagnosis.
Yeah, a national cloud system for radiology image storing and sharing part of the national healthcare system the would be much better, but computers and on-line services are still a new confusing thing to the government, so this is what we got now. So every medical practice still has functioning optical readers.