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[Mattyp]

Sony has announced it will cease production of recordable Blu-ray discs and other physical recording media by February 2025, marking the end of an 18-year run for its Blu-ray Disc media. The decision also impacts MiniDiscs, MD Data discs, and MiniDV cassettes, with the company confirming that no successor products will be introduced..

https://hometheaterreview.com/sony-pulls-the-plug-on-recordable-blu-ray-discs-is-this-the-end-of-physical-media/

Feel this is slightly game relative to cease manufacturing of one section of bluray support on a format they helped shape, so how many more years do we really have left of physical media?

I feel I'll end up buying a PS6 & NextBox just for the final time of backwards compatibility disc support.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Physical media is on its way out

It's OK you can be a crazy person like me and just fill your house with VHS tapes or whatever physical media you like

I'm eventually going to turn one of my rooms into a Blockbuster like experience like AVGN

 

[Bernkastel]

I'll end up buying a PS6 & NextBox just for the final time of backwards compatibility disc support.

Xbox is moving to digital. But Sony's announcement is about consumer grade rewritable blu rays. Movies and many single player games on Playstation and Switch will continue to release on physical media.

 

[Raven117]

End of an era

 

[Bernkastel]

Physical media is on its way out

It's OK you can be a crazy person like me and just fill your house with VHS tapes or whatever physical media you like

I'm eventually going to turn one of my rooms into a Blockbuster like experience like AVGN

They wouldn't be mastering old movies from 35 mm films to UHD Blu Ray if that was the case.

 

[Bernkastel]

Already posted

Thread 'Sony Cutting-Back on Recordable Media (incl. Blu Ray Discs), Outsourcing production, maintaining Replication.'

Jun 29, 2024

Sony Group to cut 250 jobs from recordable media business' key hub - The Mainichi

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Sony Group Corp. will cut around 250 jobs from its recordable media business' key manufacturing hub in northeastern Japan and offer e

mainichi.jp

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Sony Group Corp. will cut around 250 jobs from its recordable media business' key manufacturing hub in northeastern Japan and offer early retirement packages to its employees, sources close to the matter said Saturday.

The planned job cuts come amid a decline in demand for traditional storage formats such as Blu-ray discs, with streaming services now the norm.

The manufacturing base in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, currently has a workforce of around 670 people.

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[yurinka]

https://hometheaterreview.com/sony-pulls-the-plug-on-recordable-blu-ray-discs-is-this-the-end-of-physical-media/

Feel this is slightly game relative to cease manufacturing of one section of bluray support on a format they helped shape, so how many more years do we really have left of physical media?

I feel I'll end up buying a PS6 & NextBox just for the final time of backwards compatibility disc support.

This news is almost a year old and these aren't the bluray disc used in games or movies you buy.

These are BD-R the ones you buy to burn them in your PC. Like in the past people did the old CD-R or DVD-R.

Nowadays people don't have disc burners at home anymore since many years ago. People uses internet cloud storage, SSDs or pendrives to store or share stuff. So it's normal to get rid of them.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

They wouldn't be mastering old movies from 35 mm films to UHD Blu Ray if that was the case.

I didn't say it's gone

Target confirms it’s all but completely ditching DVDs in physical stores

DVDs are dwindling.

www.theverge.com

Target confirms it's all but completely ditching DVDs in physical stores

First, Best Buy confirmed that it's dropping DVDs. Now Target is ditching them, too.

This has been coming for a while. It might take quite a while longer, but it's definitely heading out.

 

[Demigod Mac]

Keywords are important: Recordable

 

[Boss Mog]

OP makes it sound like Sony is stopping all Blu-Ray production. It's just recordable Blu-Rays aka BD-R. Writable optical media is pretty much dead at ths point, most desktop PCs today don't have an optical disc drive anymore. This has absolutely nothing to do with pressed Blu-Ray discs used for Playstation games and movies.

 

[Loomy]

There's at least 3 threads from January of this year about this. What's with the 10 months late thread? lol

Thread 'Sony announces that it will officially end production of recordable Blu-ray discs in February'

Jan 24, 2025

Put down another nail in physical media's coffin.

Sony has announced that it will cease production of Blu-ray discs next month. In a statement shared by the company, it announced that "Blu-ray disc media, recording mini discs, recording MD data, mini DV cassettes" will all get the axe in February, confirming towards the end of the announcement that "there will be no successor models".

Sony announces that it will officially end production of recordable Blu-ray discs in February

Could this be the final nail in the coffin?

www.whathifi.com

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[nial]

Sony has announced it will cease production of recordable Blu-ray discs and other physical recording media by February 2025

You guys don't even read the stuff you post.

 

[Bernkastel]

Already posted

Thread 'Sony Cutting-Back on Recordable Media (incl. Blu Ray Discs), Outsourcing production, maintaining Replication.'

Jun 29, 2024

Sony Group to cut 250 jobs from recordable media business' key hub - The Mainichi

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Sony Group Corp. will cut around 250 jobs from its recordable media business' key manufacturing hub in northeastern Japan and offer e

mainichi.jp

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Sony Group Corp. will cut around 250 jobs from its recordable media business' key manufacturing hub in northeastern Japan and offer early retirement packages to its employees, sources close to the matter said Saturday.

The planned job cuts come amid a decline in demand for traditional storage formats such as Blu-ray discs, with streaming services now the norm.

The manufacturing base in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, currently has a workforce of around 670 people.

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There's at least 3 threads from January of this year about this. What's with the 10 months late thread? lol

Thread 'Sony announces that it will officially end production of recordable Blu-ray discs in February'

Jan 24, 2025

Put down another nail in physical media's coffin.

Sony has announced that it will cease production of Blu-ray discs next month. In a statement shared by the company, it announced that "Blu-ray disc media, recording mini discs, recording MD data, mini DV cassettes" will all get the axe in February, confirming towards the end of the announcement that "there will be no successor models".

Sony announces that it will officially end production of recordable Blu-ray discs in February

Could this be the final nail in the coffin?

www.whathifi.com

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Lol adamsapple made two threads for this FUD.

 

[GHound]

Honestly I'm surprised writable BDs have survived as long as they have. I've never been aware of bluray burning to be particularly popular.

 

[SkylineRKR]

I've never in my life seen or used a recordable BR. And I had many movies. Its just.. I stored everything digitally about 10 years ago.

BR itself has been around for about 20 years.. which is fairly crazy. To me it still feels like it needs to take off. Because it never really did. Once the war was over everyone went streaming anyway.

 

[CamHostage]

I've never in my life seen or used a recordable BR. And I had many movies. Its just.. I stored everything digitally about 10 years ago.

They didn't catch on. They are more expensive per disc, plus by the time they were becoming a thing, laptops were already beginning to phase out optical disc readers due to SD cards and USB drives being a quicker way to save and trade media without buying another HDD. Also, they are unfortunately said to be a less viable cold storage medium than DVD recordables due to some technical differences in how the data is stored.

But I have a BD burner, and I like having it as an option. It's a shame this may be the last per-item physical storage medium for personal digital archives, but this is the way of things. Hopefully I will at least get my own yottabyte-Sized Ceramic-on-Glass Disc Drive some day in the future...

 

[Bernkastel]

It's a shame this may be the last per-item physical storage medium for personal digital archives, but this is the way of things.

Just get a enterprise SSD or HDD. Stream to your TV with Jellyfin.

 

[Mattyp]

OP makes it sound like Sony is stopping all Blu-Ray production. It's just recordable Blu-Rays aka BD-R. Writable optical media is pretty much dead at ths point, most desktop PCs today don't have an optical disc drive anymore. This has absolutely nothing to do with pressed Blu-Ray discs used for Playstation games and movies.

Anyone with reading comprehension can see it says recordable in the title, PS5 isn't going to stop physical games come Feb.

More interested to see people's thoughts on when this finally comes to an end. Next generation will be the last without a doubt in my mind for all consoles.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

This is simply the end of these...

Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[Signalis]

I swear, some of the people here don't even read the articles that they post.

 

[Hudo]

Don't worry, guys. I still have some HD-DVD Rs.

 

[Hookshot]

Yes cartridges remain. Justice for the N64.

 

[FUBARx89]

Published On: January 27, 2025

You good?

 

[Bojanglez]

The decision also impacts MiniDiscs, MD Data discs, and MiniDV cassettes, with the company confirming that no successor products will be introduced..

They buried the lead here. I used to love MiniDiscs RIP in Peace

 

[CHEROKEEE]

This is simply the end of these...

Nothing more, nothing less.

hmm, so I better stock up on these as I STILL burn BD-R´s occasionally, since I´m one of these "HighEnd Lossless Nerds" that still rent their Movies through (Online-)VideoStores and make BD Copies If I decide to ´keep´them - Streaming quality still feels too much of a ´downgrade´ for getting the BEST out of my beloved Dolby ATMOS Home Theater ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Trunx81]

You can still buy CD-R, DVD-R and even cassette tapes, just from other manufacturers.
I didn´t even know that they were still producing MiniDiscs. Loved the format, was a banger in the 90s!

 

[dgrdsv]

For PS6 drive will be an optional accessory sold separately but installed inside the console's case (like it is with PS5 "slim" and Pro).
For PS7 it'll be a USB-connected external box, also sold separately.
These are on their way out, unfortunately.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Laws will need to be changed to move large files around. Medical field will need media for many years more.

 

[simpatico]

Please don't tell optical bros. They've been through a lot this week.

 

[RoboFu]

You know I was always hoping we would get some form of solid plastic or glass "card" as medium before all digital happened.

 

[CamHostage]

Just get a enterprise SSD or HDD. Stream to your TV with Jellyfin.

SSD isn't a great cold storage medium, and I've had enough HDDs stick a platter that they still make me nervous for anything truly personal. (That said, DVDs can discrot and go away too. Hell, for that matter, fire claims all.)

Plus, I still like to lend friends things I've made or found. A buck or less for a disc makes that easy to pass around... although fewer friends have discs hooked up to their TVs.

But sure, physical media ennui is ultimately silly. We have other solutions, and will always have plenty of means of storing and moving data (however imperfect they may be.) But as somebody who still clings to tangible items holding the things I care for and share, it bums me out that there's no "ultimate" format on the horizon.

 

[Audiophile]

It's a shame they never made BD-66/100 discs that were recordable as well as readable in a BD player (BDXL doesn't work with very rare exceptions). Have various 4K UHD Blu-rays with gimped audio tracks (mainly Disney) and the original Blu-rays or DVDs did it better, always wanted to remux them and create distinct discs that play normally and go in a double/triple disc case with the og artwork and original discs. A file backed up on a couple drives just doesn't feel the same. You can make a mostly viable 4K BD on a BD-50, but only if the video+audio tracks you need don't exceed ~48 GB.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

Physical media is on its way out

You really believe that? Like in: no physical media anywhere, at any price point, not even as a niche hobby?

I personally believe it'll survive while vanishing from the mainstream. Probably going to get more expensive as a result, too. I hear there's a trend among gen z to get into physical media, and the number of people annoyed by increasing cloud streaming prices is getting bigger by the day, some of them returning to buying DVD, Blu-ray and UHD.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

want physical
plus cool box art and a manual
ill pay extra

wont buy digital-only unless its the only way to play an exclusive game i really want

 

[Audiophile]

In regards to official releases rather than recordable media, I expect most physical for movies/tv eventually moves to boutique brands like Arrow or Criterion. Which frankly I'd welcome, they do a much better job than most studios and while there's a relative premium, it's not as much as it used to be given the prices majors are releasing stuff at recently. I think the exceptions will remain Sony, WB & Universal who'll still do a reasonable chunk of their stuff in house, but still, they'll license quite a bit too.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Never owned a recordable Bluray machine, but man o man did I make a lot of DVD's over the years.
I got to get these things transfered over to something else before they go all bit rot in the box.
Giant Harddrive maybe? I've seen cheap 20TB drives available.

 

[CamHostage]

Never owned a recordable Bluray machine, but man o man did I make a lot of DVD's over the years.
I got to get these things transfered over to something else before they go all bit rot in the box.
Giant Harddrive maybe? I've seen cheap 20TB drives available.

Me too. The upcoming Black Friday deals and just general sub-$300 pricing for 20TB drives is calling to my wallet. And although thats a lot of stuff to put all in one place, the failure rate of high-capacity drives is actually improving as they get bigger. (That said, I believe I saw Western Digital or somebody is being wrung in for a new class action suit?)

The Positive Trends of 20TB-Class Drives and What They Mean for Storage Solutions

Recent insights from Backblaze highlight a promising trend in hard drive reliability. The report indicates significant improvements in the performance of 20TB-class drives, showcasing a decrease in failure rates

www.diskinternals.com

Still, my eyes are set on the future of "ceramic hard drives", with severely strong durability, 2GB/s transfer rates, and $1-per-terrabyte pricing. These are enterprise devices (meant for storage houses needing to think of yottabytes of data... I dont even have a petabyte yet, much less an exabyte, much less a zettabyte...), but even if it is still sci-fi overkill right now, me want one.

Western Digital is investing in ceramic hard drive pioneer Cerabyte — company's nearly indestructible storage device gets a key backer

One step closer to the yottabyte

www.tomshardware.com

 

[cireza]

Who even burns blurays lol ?

 

[Magic Carpet]

Still, my eyes are set on the future of "ceramic hard drives", with severely strong durability, 2GB/s transfer rates, and $1-per-terrabyte pricing. These are enterprise devices (meant for storage houses needing to think of yottabytes of data... I dont even have a petabyte yet, much less an exabyte, much less a zettabyte...), but even if it is still sci-fi overkill right now, me want one.

If I start right now and move a disk over to the HD every now and then, Maybe I'll be finished moving things over by the time these Ceramic devices get released.