Sony plans to eventually stop producing recordable BD-R discs meant for consumers, but commercial-grade Blu-ray movie and game discs aren't affected.
  • @jqubedEnglish
    38•6 months ago

    They’re not the only ones making that media, right? Or do they make the media for everyone and put other names like Memorex on the label?

    • @[email protected]English
      28•6 months ago

      There’s a lot of companies that produce them, and at least a few big brand names that are making their own and for sure not just relabeling something else.

    • @TORFdot0English
      9•6 months ago

      Don’t the other companies still have to license or at least pay royalties to Sony to make BD-R or that only for commercial discs?

      • @[email protected]English
        7•6 months ago

        Unless I’m mistaken, and I probably am, the patents on blueray should have expired by now. Software side might be covered under copyright right though. Not sure if software can be copyrighted though tbh.

        • @[email protected]English
          7•6 months ago

          Software is copyrighted but nothing stops you from coding your own identical version. You just can’t re-use any code from the original.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•6 months ago

        Not sure where you get this, but the standard is now ruled by Blu-ray Disk Association. There’s no mention about patent. I’ve looked on the Wikipedia page and the only mention about royalty is about the video codec.