After 18 years, Sony's recordable Blu-ray media production draws to a close — will shut last factory in Feb (Updated)
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MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes will also be abandoned.
    • lewdian69@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      2 days ago

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

      • atempuser23@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 days ago

        The article title is very close to many others and the Google translate of the official Japanese press release. Tech powerup seemed to do some basic journalism as opposed to just google translate.

    • Armand1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

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

        • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          5·
          2 days 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.

      • atempuser23@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        I’m not so sure. Blank consumer recordable disks are something that usually have generic versions. Someone is likely still making disks. Just not Sony.

  • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
    14·
    2 days 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.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

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

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day 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)