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Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I understand that from a business perspective, but I'm having a hard time rationalizing it for personal use.

I guess, if you're doing a lot of video editing and you want to preserve a large personal library? Idk.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It's mostly family photos and videos. I've become the de facto family digital archivist. Some digital copies of important phyiscal records. When you convert files to lossless/uncompressed formats suitable for long term storage they get large really quickly.