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\nApple announced new Mac Minis this week which, I suppose, means that they’re still in the computer industry. The fanboys were disappointed that the new minis didn’t include a Blu-ray player. I’m not.
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\nLet me get this out of the way: I hope that Blu-ray dies a quick and sudden death.<\/p>\n
Spinning media is dead. Optical media is dead.<\/p>\n
Ask yourself this question: When was the last time you stuck a CD or DVD into your computer? Probably the last time you installed software, right? But how long ago was that?<\/p>\n
Answer this: When was the last time you burned a CD-R or a DVD-R?<\/p>\n
Computer users really don’t need optical media any more. I use thumb drives to transfer or temporarily store files. I watch streaming movies on my computer.<\/p>\n
Sure, I still buy the occasional DVD movie, some film I want to keep. I rent from Netflix. I have one of those huge, flat-screen TVs, but I don’t see any reason to buy a Blu-ray player and get Blu-ray discs. It just seems like a colossal waste of money \u2014 and so would a Blu-Ray player be on any computer.<\/p>\n
In case you didn’t know, Blu-ray is Sony’s optical media format, which stores about five times the data of a DVD.<\/p>\n
You need a special player to view Blu-ray discs, and it’s much more expensive (as are the discs) than DVDs or CDs.<\/p>\n
So why bother with a Blu-ray player for your computer?<\/p>\n
Software isn’t going to come on Blu-ray discs. Evar. No, in the future, you’ll probably be downloading most, if not all, of your computer software.<\/p>\n
You won’t be making your own Blu-ray discs. Nope, it’ll be too expensive to do that. I’d rather buy and give away thumb drives.<\/p>\n
Obviously, the only reason to have Blu-ray on a computer would be to watch movies. That’s obnoxious, given that you can watch movies pretty much anytime as they come streaming from the Internet.<\/p>\n
So what point is there to Blu-ray?<\/p>\n
As I’ve written before: Spinning media is dead. The future of the computer is all solid state. Eventually the Solid State Drives (SSDs) will be every PC’s primary storage device. Media cards and thumb drives will provide removable storage. Nope, Blu-ray go away<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apple announced new Mac Minis this week which, I suppose, means that they’re still in the computer industry. The fanboys were disappointed that the new minis didn’t include a Blu-ray player. I’m not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1746,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}