Physical discs are required for countries that do not hav...
“Physical discs are required for countries that do not have high-end internet service.”
Summary
Physical discs are not a requirement for countries lacking high‑end internet service; they remain optional and many users can obtain digital content despite slower connections. Optical drives have become largely unnecessary, and there is no evidence that any nation mandates physical media due to internet speed limitations.
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- Physical limitations on broadband invisibility based on fast-light media | Nature Communications
The authors claim that such a “fast-light cloak” can hide an object, even from time-of-flight detection techniques, and achieve invisibility “over any desired frequency band, so long as the superluminality condition [...] is attained over the desired bandwidth”. We disagree with these claims and believe that a thorough clarification of the ideas put forward in ref. 1 is important and necessary for the broad wave physics community. Specifically, in this Matters Arising we clarify that invisibility cloaks based on fast-light media suffer from fundamental bandwidth restrictions that arise due to causality, the nature of superluminal wave propagation, and the stability issues of active systems.
- Optical storage media writing and reading speed - Wikipedia
Modern DVD drives use constant ... the physical rotation speed on every jump, and zoned constant linear velocity for writing reliably with different data rates in different zones. A higher writing speed results in a faster disc burn, but the optical quality may be lower ...
- List of countries by Internet connection speeds - Wikipedia
This is a sortable list of broadband internet connection speed by country, ranked by Speedtest.net data for March 2026.
- Physical media - Wikipedia
Physical media refers to the physical materials that are used to store or transmit information in data communications. These physical media are generally physical objects made of materials such as copper or glass. They can be touched and felt, and have physical properties such as weight and color.
- Internet Speed By Country
Internet speed by country with broadband and mobile speeds, internet users percent, and freedom score. Ranked by DataPandas.
- Do You Need an Optical Drive for Gaming? – Apex Gaming PCs
The optical disc drives that powered the last generation of data transfers have gone from being a requirement to completely optional due to the limited cases for practical gaming uses in 2022 for newly released games.
- Let's settle this... can PS5 disc-based games be installed without an internet connection? | NeoGAF
that shit is peanuts. at least you can have the luxury of having part of the game content transferred from the disc to console. Some Switch games don't even have a cart inside. It's just a code inside. ... Click to expand... Move to a first world country. ... I had a situation with a PS4 game where I couldn't play it until it installed an update. I didn't have internet at the time and so couldn't play the physical copy of a game I bought.
- Internet Speeds by Country 2026
For example, the United States has only the 15th-fastest mobile speeds at 110.07 Mbps and the 13th fastest broadband speeds at 203.81 Mbps, though average internet download speeds vary substantially from state to state.
- Do We Still Need Physical Media? - Aesthetics for Birds
Whether it’s CD’s or vinyl records, physical books or Blu-ray discs, physical media forces us to slow down a bit. It makes us connect back with the real, physical world.
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