Do you think that within 10 years all disc players will become obsolete like VCR?

[Skyros]

Take the PS5 for example, it has a disc version and a non disc. My very logical fear is we are witnessing the beginning of the end of physical discs. Everything is going to digital codes and streaming. I hate to see discs go, but I recognize that we have to move on with technology in this instance.

[Leopard23]

Physical disks and players are already outdated and have been for quite some time. Most laptops and computers come now without a hard drive. PlayStation still has discs to get you to buy in store but the PlayStation is constantly updating. Even if everything wasn't online now you would be using other stuff like SD sticks instead of disks. Frankly I'm glad to see the end of laser discs as they did nothing but get scratched. I don't know anyone who still has a disk or CD player of any kind anymore that's under 40. I remember having dvds and cds in my room and they'd litteraly take up an entire wall as though they were part of the furniture, same with books, I had a stereo in a corner in its own dedicated unit with with radio/cd/tape/record player, a 40 inch TV that had a huge back that took 2 people to move with DVD player on a unit that took up half the room, a cd Walkman but now I have a flatscreen smart tv 50 inch hanging on the wall, a blue tooth portable speaker and a phone with no dvds, cds or even books as it can all be done now by about 3 devices. Pretty soon we won't even be buying an xbox or PlayStation, we will be buying a pad and logging in to their website on our smart TV. Even ipods are dead. Everything can literally be done now via smartphone.

[JustinTheGreat]

Probably. I have a gaming PC that doesn’t have a disc drive. Even if I got an external drive i don’t think it would be able to run disc games, as I’ve tried that with a laptop before and it didn’t work.
so I have a lot of older games on disc that I would love to play but can’t 😭 A lot of games usually come with a digital code to be able to download it but I don’t have them. And they’re old enough that they probably didn’t even come with one in the first place

[DizzyDesii]

I literally kept a laptop from the stone ages for this reason (to play Sim 3). It still takes discs while the ones made today do not

[JustinTheGreat]

@DizzyDesii that’s the exact game I was talking about lmaooo. I bought the Sims 3 on my pc anyways but I have almost every expansion on disc and I don’t feel like spending all that money on them again.
I’ve been playing sims 4 lately anyways.
I also have all the sims 2 games and expansions on disc too. Sims 2 was the best one

[DizzyDesii]

Yea i couldnt even get sims 3 expansions to download on other devices because the “Origin” account logins glitch and won't let you login. Yet i can still access my EA account if i tried. But yea i just keep this dinosaur laptop that my mom gave me from like early 2000s (if that) for when i want to play. I have all the expansions for sims 3 except for pets/showtime. I’ve been wanting to play lately but haven't. I may pull it out today. My sis likes sims 4 on the xbox but i dont like sims on game consoles.

[JustinTheGreat]

@DizzyDesii I don’t like sims on console either because I like getting custom content and mods. I don't know if they have it for sims 3 but for 4 they have one called wicked whims. It gives them realistic sex animations and it’s fucking wilddddd 😭

[DizzyDesii]

Yea my cousin be doin that weird sex stuff to her sims lmao. Nahh 🤣 But i dont like how it works when building a house on the console. The only thing i even like about sims 4 is the adjustments when creating the sim but i dont like the gameplay itself. And wtf was up with sims 2 letting people throw their baby on a grill

[DizzyDesii]

I refuse to let them go and will continue to use them. I most definitely prefer the physical copy of things

[Nikki1989]

Nope. People said that about record players, but you can still buy them. I bought a new one last year.

[Skyros]

True, didn’t think about that.

[exitseven]

@nikki1989 Actually vinyl is making a comeback. Real audiophiles like the richer tone of a vinyl record album.

[NamerOfStars]

I can most definitely assure that you that we do NOT have to move forward with technology this way.

If you don't understand why, let me simply point out that Han shot before Greedo had even properly aimed his gun. I can prove that at a moment's notice with my VCR- without physical media, you have only my word to go on.

[NewsReader]

Yup. But I still have cd's, vcr tapes, and audio cassettes. My laptop has a dvd drive. Keeping old technology is good in my opinion. Great collection. And could be worth a lot of money in the future. Who knows?

[exitseven]

Yes, physical disks will soon be obsolete. Computers no longer have mechanical hard drives. They have a chip that in installed on the motherboard that stores just as much data., Technology is always changing.

[Skyros]

Yeah, I hate it. But I’ve seen it happen too many times in history. There’s no doubt some people weren’t happy when cars came out because they knew the age of horses was at an end.

[exitseven]

would you really like to go back to the old hayburner? It was slow and messy and on a rainy day it was tough,

[Gummy_Cluster]

You saw how angry people got when I RELAYED what the experts were saying about the future and robots and money. Talk about shooting the messenger.

I watched an old episode of Star Trek, the next generation. They found three pods floating in space. They beamed them aboard, and opened them. (that show takes place 300 years from now)

The pods each contained a person from our time.

One guy asked if he could watch TV, and the crew had no clue what he was talking about. (I haven't watched TV in weeks, so I can believe that)

One guy was a musician, but I forget what he wanted.

The third guy was a businessman. He asked Captain Picard how much it pays to be a captain. Picard didn't understand the question, so the Android explained what money was. Picard explained to the business guy that being a captain of a star ship is its own reward. Now the business guy was confused. He asked why anyone would work. Picard explained that all the shitty jobs were done by machine, and the fun stuff was for humans. I might ask another question about it, but space shields up. lol

[exitseven]

@Gummy_Cluster I think the future will be less like Star Trek and more like Mad Max

[Gummy_Cluster]

Ah, a bit more bleak? lol

[exitseven]

@Gummy_Cluster More than a bit.

[Gummy_Cluster]

So you mean like Chicago on the weekend?

[exitseven]

@Gummy_Cluster yes, only with less bloodshed.

[Gummy_Cluster]

Beetlejuice Lightfoot is so proud of her city.

[exitseven]

@Gummy_Cluster Don't laugh she is gonna get re-elected.

[Gummy_Cluster]

Of course she is. And Chicago is a sanctuary city that hates giving illegals sanctuary.
People vote down party lines. If Freddy Krueger was running against Trump, the Dems would vote for Freddy.

[exitseven]

@Gummy_Cluster He would be a better president than Biden. At least he might scare the shit out of Putin.

[Gummy_Cluster]

True, but I'm not so sure that Joey, Zelenskyy and Putin aren't all just sharing in the bounty.
Yes, people are dying on both sides of the war, but why would these three leaders care?
The American tax payers might just be making them all rich. Did you ever notice that the bombs never reach the leaders? Some guy said on here yesterday, what I've said from the beginning. This is another "Wag The Dog."
If you haven't seen it, watch the movie.

[exitseven]

@Gummy_Cluster I saw this movie a long time a go. I think I rented it at Blockbuster.
It is always the young guys that go to war and get killed.
My father was a WW2 vet and he always told the story of some general who ordered a group of GIs go through dangerous territory carrying a shower stall so he could have a hot shower at the front. The guys got killed and the shower stall was never delivered. The Army had an inquiry and there was a hearing but the panel was made up of all fellow West Point grads and naturally they cleared him of all charges.

[Gummy_Cluster]

Yes, of course he was cleared. And his kids weren't carrying the shower stall. Can you imagine how few wars there would have been if the president's kids had to carry the shower stalls?

[ArrowheadSW]

I like owning DVD's of movies that I like, so I hope they don't go obsolete.

[HaveNoName]

They will be a hard to find but they will continue to exist. Many people like to collect media. That market will go on.

[HaveNoName]

I believe the question was more tuned to video and games. My answer is more about audio (misic).

[TheSpaceGnome]

Discs will never go away until another physical medium replaces them.
The majority of people who buy said media, would boycott products otherwise.

[MaazHussain]

I don’t agree. End consumers rarely have a choice. It is always the big players who decide what should be in the market and when.
Take an example of Sim card. When phones started coming with eSim did anyone as a consumer have a choice? Or when phones started comically with a touch screen instead of keypad, did any consumer had a choice? The answer is No.

[MaazHussain]

Coming* with a touch screen

[TheSpaceGnome]

@MaazHussain Tell that to microsoft and their failed xbox one launch that forced them to backpeddle nearly every business choice they made just to get any sales..

Money talks.

Touch screens are superior to keypads in functionality, sim cards still work on almost all phones (to the point that i've never even seen an esim phone or heard of esim until you mentioned it), and there is no consumer advantage to digital software that physical copies does not have. Which is why consoles still come with disc trays, and why stand alone disc trays still exist for pc.

[TheSpaceGnome]

Then again, you're in pakistan apparantly, so maybe it's different where you are.

In the united states, end consumers sue and boycott companies all the time over unfair product design. Class action lawsuits with the entire state suing companies are also very common here. We are very loud about unwanted garbage in the US.

[LiamJHayden]

Yes. Just less expensive to distribute, no discs to damage, and fewer moving parts to fail. It's like digitized movies. I have over 1000 movie discs, plus numerous series on disc, and they all fit in high-def mp4s on a few external HDD's.

[TheSpaceGnome]

An HDD has more points of failure than a disc, even an SSD does.

HDD moving parts are designed to fail, and discs have no moving parts. Disc trays have moving parts, but fail enourmously less often than HDDs or even SSDs.

[DizzyDesii]

@LiamJHayden the day you decide to get rid of those discs, I’ll be there

[TheSpaceGnome]

@DizzyDesii Ah, a woman of culture, keep those retro game stores alive!

[NostalgiaSenpi]

I hope not. The big thing I have against full digital is that the company can take away the digital version away forever from your library. Disc can stay.

[Anonymous]

Read plan 2030, human freedom will be obsolete in 10 years

[Zayed_]

I thought they were already gone!

[TheSpaceGnome]

Nope, all consoles come with a disc tray version, stand alone disc trays can still be purchased for PCs, almost all console games come on disc, some pc games still come on disc, almost all movies still end up on discs, and a decent amount of software comes on discs.

[Zayed_]

@TheSpaceGnome but most people buy the downloaded version

[TheSpaceGnome]

Only for PC games is that actually true.
For movies and tv, streaming has the majority.
For console games or workplace installs, discs are still leading.

[Zayed_]

@TheSpaceGnome lets agree to disagree then.

[TheSpaceGnome]

I mean if you want to disagree with aspects of reality, you might have trouble functioning in life, but you do you.

[Zayed_]

@TheSpaceGnome you had to make this debate disrespectful!

[MaazHussain]

@TheSpaceGnome Eventually disks will be obsolete after the adoption of 5G. As of now there are handful of countries where 5G is launched. Reason why disk version is there as in many countries internet speed is slow. According to the data of speedtest. net majority of the countries average speed is less than 20 Mbps that too comes with a cap of downloading ranging from 200 to 500GB a month.. And games like GTA 5 will need more than a day to download considering that speed and can consume their most of the download limit. So digital edition is not feasible at the moment. But with the adoption of 5G things will change drastically. So within 10 years disks might be obsolete.

In my case, I’m 27 and last time I might have used a cd or dvd was around 10 to 12 years ago.