Sony Japan Ends Production Of Recordable Blu-rays With ‘no Successor’ Planned

Sony is officially ending accumulation of recordable Blu-rays. In an announcement from Japan spotted by Tom’s Hardware, Sony Storage Media Solutions said it will extremity manufacturing nan discs successful February, alongside recordable MiniDiscs, MD-Data, and MiniDV cassettes, adding, “there will beryllium nary successor models.”

This discontinuation doesn’t effect nan Blu-rays you tin bargain pinch films aliases TV shows connected them; it conscionable affects nan blank ones consumers usage to grounds worldly connected themselves pinch PCs aliases DVRs. Sony hinted astatine nan discontinuation past year, telling nan Japanese outlet AVWatch that it would “gradually extremity betterment and accumulation of ‘recordable optical disc media.’’

Sony has helped lead nan accumulation of Blu-ray since nan very beginning. In 2000, nan institution showed disconnected nan first Blu-ray prototypes and later revealed its Blu-ray disc recorders successful 2006. Like Sony, LG, Samsung, and Oppo personification too started backing distant from nan format by ending nan accumulation of Blu-ray players.

In summation to Blu-ray, Sony’s announcement too affects nan MiniDisc — nan compact disc format Sony made successful 1992 arsenic an replacement to overmuch susceptible cassettes and unwieldy CDs. This mightiness make it harder for MiniDisc diehards to get their hands connected blank discs, which you tin apparently still load euphony onto utilizing your smartphone.