Dynabook and NEC revive optical drives in modern laptops, blending nostalgia with high-performance processors, high-res ...

Albee Layer has built a career by going contrary to many surf norms and then turning the dial up a notch. He said no (respectfully) to the Eddie, then paddled into the barrel of his life at Jaws.

Blu-ray, which features large storage capacities of 25GB for single-layer and 50GB for dual-layer ... end production of all models of Blu-ray Disc Media, Recordable MiniDiscs, Recordable MD ...

Former PlayStation CEO Shawn Layden thinks Xbox's multiplatform strategy can work, and mentions similarities to former hardware maker, SEGA. Sony’s market is globally so huge, I think it’ll be ...

As of February 2025, Sony will no longer manufacture and distribute blank recordable Blu-ray Discs. When you consider that Best Buy stopped selling physical media in 2024 and Target is about to pull ...

There was a time when Blu-ray discs reigned supreme, but the era of physical media now firmly exists in the shadow of digital streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime.

Blu-ray discs have been part of the digital media landscape for almost 20 years, but fewer and fewer people have optical drives to use them. As such, Sony doesn't see the need to keep pumping out ...

Sony announced that the company is officially halting the production of recordable Blu-ray, MiniDisc and MD Data disc media as well as MiniDV cassettes. It's another step in the slow decline of ...

Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin says the ETH community should be doubling down on layer-2 scaling solutions to strengthen ... and now is the time to double down.” At time of writing, ETH is trading ...

Sony Japan has announced that, effective February, it will cease manufacturing recordable Blu-ray discs, MiniDiscs, MD-Data, and MiniDV cassettes, with no plans for successor models. This decision ...

Fans of physical media—myself included—tend to be a morbid bunch, dwelling on the rise of streaming while bemoaning the steady decline of Blu-ray, the home-media format of choice for cinephiles.