• magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      No that’s the idea, it would be to make a piece of software which if thrown on a sbc with a DVD drive becomes a player.

      Which really isn’t too far off of DVD and most bluray players.

      Though I wouldn’t be shocked if the super cheap DVD players have some sorta all-in-one integrated asic for most of the job.

      Would mostly be used by hobbiest making their own burned discs and small artists releasing stuff.

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        2 days ago

        I mean if you control the software on the “player” you don’t really need a dedicated dvd format. Think about mp3 CDs, it never became a real format with specs and everything yet most CD players after a certain date supported them.

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          Think about mp3 CDs…

          • …Or worse, ATRAC CDs, which thankfully also never caught on because had they caught on, given ATRAC is a proprietary Sony codec, they would’ve only been able to be played back on Sony CD players which supported the ATRAC codec.
        • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2 days ago

          Yeah but if you make it an open format other hobbyists could make their own hardware/software about it.

          Mostly a fantasy medium, but if people start using it for art, then hey neat.