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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.

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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.