Sony will no longer manufacture blank, recordable Blu-ray discs in Japan. Sony’s three-sentence press release confirmed similar death dates for its blank MiniDisc, MD data, and MiniDV cassettes.

Sony (more precisely the division Sony Storage Media Solutions) has announced that it will interrupt the production of ...

Sony has announced that it will cease production of Blu-ray discs next month. In a statement shared by the company, it announced that "Blu-ray disc media, recording mini discs, recording MD data, mini ...

Sony is discontinuing production of Blu-Ray discs after 18 years. Justin Sullivan/Getty Sony says it will stop manufacturing blank Blu-ray discs for the Japanese market along with MiniDiscs and ...

Sony has announced that it will cease its production of all models of its Blu-ray disc media, recordable MiniDiscs, recordable MD Data, and Mini DV Cassettes in February 2025. The company added ...

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 ...

February 2025 will see the end of three formats that Sony played a key role in developing. The company will then cease production of recordable Blu-ray discs, MiniDiscs and MiniDV cassettes.

Sony has announced the complete discontinuation of its recordable media production by February 2025. This marks the end of an era for Blu-ray Discs, MiniDiscs, and MiniDV cassettes. The decision ...

A rewritable optical disc. First used in drives by Panasonic in the late 1980s, the phase change technology was subsequently employed in all major optical drives, including CD-RW, DVD-RW ...