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.
  • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    4 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?

    • antler@feddit.rocksEnglish
      28·
      4 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.

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      4 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?

      • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        7·
        4 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.

        • VonReposti@feddit.dkEnglish
          7·
          4 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.

      • pastermil@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        4 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.