Justin Sullivan/Getty Sony says it will stop manufacturing blank Blu-ray discs for the Japanese ... that could be used to save media in a physical format. “We would like to express our sincere ...

One of the biggest drawbacks to the format was the price of blank media, particularly when writeable CD-Rs arrived on the scene and rapidly dropped in price in the mid-2000s. Blank media was ...

There was a time when Blu-ray discs ... its blank MiniDisc, MD data, and MiniDV cassettes. The company also made it clear that you shouldn’t expect any “successor models” to these formats ...

In the long history of recorded media, Sony’s MiniDisc format barely registers as a ... CDs always felt so lifeless to me: blank discs etched with millions of invisible microscopic dots.

but in either case the format was abandoned in the late 2000s, and I bet you've never even heard of it. I sure didn't until I did the research for this piece. The Sony UMD (Universal Media Disc ...

Replace the disc with a blank disc in the drive to record onto ... The SOHW-1673SU includes write speeds of 4x on DVD+R (double-layer) media as well as 16x on single-layer DVD-RW and DVD+RW ...