Blu-ray discs have been part of the digital media landscape for almost 20 years, but fewer and fewer people have optical ...

The staff reduction is happening to the Sony Sendai Technology Center, which produces recordable disc formats like CD-R, DVD-R, BD-R and archival discs for the Japanese region. Standard Blu-rays ...

So Sony’s announcement should not cause fans of physical media undue concern. While demand for new titles on DVD, Blu-ray Disc and UHD Blu-ray fell by almost 25% in 2024, there were some high points.

Sony’s three-sentence press release ... information that are less-than-half the size of those in a DVD. A traditional Blu-ray disc holds about five times as much data as a standard DVD, allowing ...

Sony has announced that it will cease its production of all models of its Blu-ray disc media, recordable MiniDiscs, recordable MD Data, and Mini DV Cassettes in February 2025. The company added ...

There are more examples, though seeing Sony eject itself from producing Blu-ray discs really drives the point home that an era is ending. I can still remember buying an HD-DVD player rather than ...

While you can stream clips from a mini disc inside camcorder to a TV using a cable or even play the disc with some Sony DVD players, you cannot play video from the mini DVD disc on most computers ...

Blu-ray discs first went on sale in 2006, when they did battle with the competing HD DVD standard. Eventually, Sony's tight relationship with film studios and the release of the Blu-ray-equipped ...