On Thursday, Sony Japan announced that it will no longer manufacture or sell blank Blu-ray Discs in its home market. Several outlets misinterpreted the company's press release and incorrectly ...

Disney is outsourcing a big piece of its home entertainment division to Sony Pictures Entertainment, which will manufacture, distribute and market the Mouse House’s DVDs and Blu-ray discs and ...

The Sony-led, multicompany collaborative effort to develop DVD’s successor dates back to 1998, although it would be years before its creators released the Blu-ray white paper in 2004. The first ...

Previously, Sony had manufactured a range of recordable Blu-ray discs, ranging from 25GB to 128GB in storage. In July of 2024, Sony stopped manufacturing recordable Blu-ray discs for the consumer ...

In a statement, Sony wrote, “ In Japan, we have a unique culture to record TV programs in the Blu-ray disc and we sell blank storage Blu-ray discs for this use only in Japan. The subject of this ...

Sony, one of the biggest proponents of the Blu-ray format, announced that it is ending production of all Blu-ray disc media. Same goes for MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and ...

Sony did not specify a detailed reason for the cessation, but it is not the first company to stop its production of Blu-ray discs. When Panasonic made the cut earlier in February 2023, it noted a ...

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 ...

That’s because, after an 18-year run, Sony has decided to stop producing recordable Blu-ray discs. In an announcement first spotted by Tom’s Hardware, the Japanese media giant revealed that it will ...

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 ...

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