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We will end production of all models of Blu-ray Disc media, MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes as of February 2025. There will be no successor models. We would like ...

A traditional Blu-ray disc holds about five times as much data as a standard DVD, allowing for much higher-definition video files. Blu-ray industry specifications also require mechanical abrasion ...

Blu-ray has been on a slow decline ever since. Sony hinted at changes to its disc operations last year, saying it would "gradually end development and production" of recordable optical disc formats.

The announcement came via a short statement on Sony’s website (translated from Japanese), where it said it’s ending the production of "Blu-ray disc media, recording mini discs, recording MD data, mini ...

Sony has announced it is ending Blu-ray media production, along with MiniDiscs, MiniDiscs data and miniDV tape, just months after it got rid of its 5.5TB Optical Disc Archive cartridge.

the types of Blu-ray discs that Sony won’t make any more are “home-recordable” discs, like the blank DVD-Rs and CD-Rs that many of us used for burning photos, MP3s, and other media to disc.

Updated to clarify the Blu-ray Disc media ending is recordable Blu-ray Discs. Added more background information.

In addition to Blu-ray, Sony’s announcement also affects the MiniDisc — the compact disc format Sony made in 1992 as an alternative to more fragile cassettes and unwieldy CDs. This might make ...

announced that it is ending production of all Blu-ray disc media. Same goes for MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes. The Blu-ray pioneer also confirmed that there ...