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Who says HDDVD is dead? (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 weeks ago by HugeNerd@lemmy.ca to c/thrifting_scores@lemmy.ca
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Not me! Maybe not the best selection, there were more Warner Brothers discs, infamous for bit rot (it's real, even their regular DVDs die prematurely), I passed on those. I have a few and they are all dead.

[For those who don't know, HDDVD was the HD format that lost the format wars of the early 2000s. There are very few readers any more out there. The XBOX 360's external reader is one, the Toshiba machines are the others. I have both!]

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[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol this is the first time I've seen a title like this be not be bait like "who says brunettes can't eat spinach?"

Legitimately everyone will say it's dead.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure, next you'll tell me S-VHS is dead too?

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I totally forgot about those!! Was that ever alive? I don't recall using one.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

In the late '90s you could record a DVD to S-VHS and it was real hard to tell the difference. Compared to VHS it was a huge step up.