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After 18 years, Sony's Blu-ray media production draws to a close — shuts its last factory in Feb (www.tomshardware.com)

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[+] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No no. The headline says Sony is stopping all Blu-ray production. Definitely no sensationalism. Nope.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Are you sure about that?

I've read both articles and they both seem to say they are stopping production of Blu-rays, plus three other formats.

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

It mentions that consumer recordable Blu-rays were already dropped last year.

Mid-last year, the Japanese multinational conglomerate revealed that it would stop production of consumer-grade recordable Blu-ray discs (BD-RE and BD-R)

Still, this might just mean that Sony will no longer make games distributed via disc. Sony does not have a Monopoly on making Blu-ray discs, and I do not believe they can unilaterally decide that no more will be made by others

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_optical_disc_manufacturers

Regardless, it is a sign of the times, with Blu-ray reader production being recently stopped by LG. It's likely all downhill from here, as much as I am sad to say.

I will resist this as much as possible, as I like owning my media. If you give me no means to own my movies, then I will find other ways to acquire them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They were still making MiniDiscs and MiniDV tapes? That seems more of a surprise than the Blu-ray discontinuation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Japan often continues to use tech beyond the point other developed countries consider it obsolete (their government only recently transitioned away from floppy discs). It wouldn't surprise me if Sony was manufacturing the Mini- formats in small quantities for the Japanese market only.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which still sucks.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Unrelated to the topic: news media used to get someone to translate their shit for them so there wouldn't be ambiguity about what the source says. I fucking hate that it's now okay to rely on machine translation and hope for the best. I will not credit them here for noticing that something wasn't entirely clear in their translation, that's the bare minimum.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Motherfucker. I just got a bluray burner so I could backup things.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just threw a burner and spindle of 50 blanks out last week because I hadn’t burned one in over 10 years…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Lol damn

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought Sony had a contract to make physical releases of the Disney material.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=371377

https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/030124-1330

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/disney-sony-pysical-media-dvd-blu-ray-disc-business-1235917294/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

From what I can gather, they're only discontinuing sale of blank writable discs? I imagine they don't sell very well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I didnt even know computer bluray drives existed.

I've never, ever seen one advertised.

edit Several hours later edit/clarification.

I knew about basic bluray drives for like..watching movies and shit on.

I just didnt know they ever created Bluray R or RW drives or media. I'd have bought the fuck out of it if I had known (and it wasnt stupidly priced)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sony also made the Beta Max.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Motherfucker. I just got a bluray burner so I could backup things.