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.

Sony is exiting the blank media business, but this doesn’t signal Blu-ray’s death. Reports claiming otherwise are misleading—Blu-ray remains relevant for AV enthusiasts despite Sony’s move. “Let our ...

Sony has announced that as of February 2025, it’s no longer going to manufacture four types of recordable media: Blu-ray Disc media, MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV ...

As of February 2025, Sony will no longer manufacture and distribute blank recordable Blu-ray Discs. When you consider that Best Buy stopped selling physical media in 2024 and Target is about to pull ...

For Sony this seems to have now escalated to where it’ll be shuttering its recordable optical media storage operations, after more than 18 years of producing recordable Blu-ray discs.

When the technology behind media storage formats like the MiniDisc and Blu-Ray was first being developed, the engineers involved believed the technology would be used well into the future, says ...