Local Japanese media comment these days the fever of PC users for purchasing internal readers Blu-raywhich have been sold out in all stores. The cause? The change from Windows 10 to Windows 11.
It is something that can only happen in Japan, the country where the physical format is still very important. There many movies and series on DVD and Blu-ray, especially anime, still sell millions of units.
The end of Windows 10 and the jump to Windows 11 has caused a problem among Japanese PC users: they have to buy a new computer, but modern PCs… do not include a disk readernor space to integrate it.
In search of a Blu-ray reader on PC
Nowadays, laptops and desktop computers that are already sold assembled do not offer the option of adding a DVD / Blu-ray reader. If you build the PC yourself, it is also difficult to find cases with space for an internal disk drive.
More problematic is the reader himself. It is now almost impossible to find internal modelsbecause they are barely manufactured. The current solution is an external reader that connects via USBas you can see in the opening photo of the news.
The Japanese do not like external readers, because they break the aesthetics of the computer and are slower than the internal ones, when it comes to burning discs. Yeah, they still store their stuff on recordable Blu-ray discs too…
So now there is a real craze in the land of the Rising Sun to find internal Blu-ray disc readers.
«Many people want to prioritize writing speed and prefer an internal drive. With external drives, there is inevitably a limit to the speed they can achieve,» explains a salesperson at Dospara Akihabara, a popular computer components supplier, via Tom’s Hardware.
«There are quite a few people who want to install an optical drive on their computer in a Windows 11 environment, just as they did in Windows 10,» says another seller at the Tsukumo eX store.
If we take a look in Spain, the truth is that it is easy to find internal and external Blu-ray disc readers. But of course, there is less demand here. Just take a look at Amazon to find an internal Asus Blu-ray disc burner for 120 euros, or an external one for about 75 euros.
Of course, it is now impossible to find drives that only read disks. All of them, in addition to reading, record.
In Japan the physical format is very importantand it is a trend that is also awakening in the rest of the world, after the controversies with the constant price increases of streaming platforms, or the Nintendo Switch 2 key cards: a box with a code inside.
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Tags: Viral, Computers, Japan, Windows 11, Windows 10, Curiosities