Chaosmagnet,
If I get what you are saying, this tech will only be good as long as there are optical drives that will read it..

That does make sense, I remember having to search around the house for a PC that was old enough to have a 3.5 inch floppy drive at one time.

I think as long as they are selling blueray drives I am safe-- it will be when (not if) they move to a new format, or get rid of physical media that I have to do this again//

Biggest issue with darn near ALL other media is rot-- floppies, read/write CD/DVD, hard drives, SD cards, USB drives-- leave them alone for 5 years and as often as not, they are trash.

I have been toying with a Blueray drive for a few months, to burn stuff for my inlaws-- taking movies they legally own, and moving to a different format, This would just limit me to Bluerays that supports this format.

I will try to report back in 5-10 years if they will still read....