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by yaomtc 812 days ago
They said BD-R. Blu-ray. Not many computers have Blu-ray drives compared to DVD.
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Oh right, my bad. Though around the 2010s IIRC many laptops even on the budget end were being sold with BD reader combo drives.
I held a portable USB3 Blu-Ray reader in my hand once.

I could have used it, too, but I could not think of anything I wanted to do with it by that time in 2017 -- seven years ago -- despite my proclivity for making backups of films.

BD on a PC has never been common in my world of computing, and by 2017 optical drives in general were becoming very uncommon in everyone's world.

It never broadly caught on.

Just at the time Blu-ray would have made sense for computers everything went to downloads. I bought many games that came on CD or DVD but the only ones that ever came on Blu-ray were for console.

And even those are mostly download now.