TheImpressiveXSony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.
TattorackWelp… There goes physical media…
derangerIt’s just one company, it’s not all the Blu-ray production stopping. I think the last time I bought any Sony recordable media was CD-Rs for my MP3 CD player in the mid 00s.
HolyhandgrenadeSony owns the blu-ray format. I’m worried.
Why are you worried about Sony owning the blu-ray format?
They can DMCA the encryption keys and boom – instead dead format.
What? No. If I write data to a Blu-ray it’s not encrypted. This comment makes little sense.
It is if it’s a commercially bought product like a movie, for instance, and without media being sold on it, the media would be basically dead for most people
You really don’t understand how bd-r/bd-rw works, do you?
If they’re decreasing their production, it could mean that physical media is ending. If so, that fucking sucks because you can’t own anything anymore
You thought blu ray sales would just continue forever?
AnUnusualRelicThere’s still the super-DVDs, or whatever they were called.
mega-discs
They do not own it, they did co-develop it.