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[–] Armand1@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Verbatim is doing more than just keeping the formats on life support – it also unveiled new hardware at CES 2025. Its Slimline Blu-ray Writer lets you back up 4K video to Ultra HD Blu-ray and even comes bundled with antiquated Nero disc burning software.

This is the important part imo, given that LG and Sony both pulled out of the USB Blu-ray reader-writer market

https://www.verbatim-europe.com/en/blu-ray-writers/products/external-slimline-blu-ray-writer-43890

Means we'll be able to rip Blu-ray's into the future. At least, that's what I hope. Need to check there are cracks for these writers.

EDIT: Won't link to it here, but many Verbatim writers, UHD and otherwise, use Pioneer hardware internally and are therefore crackable.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's the benefit of cracking the drive?

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Probably that you can backup your own media

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

It's a bd writer, it can backup my media out of the box.

Edit: oh, I see. You mean "backup". Lol gotcha. Yeah, cracking would be needed for that.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago