Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

Welp... There goes physical media...

the whole point is to stop you from owning physical media so they can arbitrarily raise prices by creating artificial cause and demand through artificial scarcity.

After spending all that money and effort to kill HDDVD. 😆

I’ll be sure to buy extras, since it’s clear this is yet another push towards the consumer market not deserving to own their media.

Apparently "recordable media" here means the kind you can record on at home, e.g. CD-R, DVD-R.

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Right as I'm getting into minidisc too

Damn. I was just starting to rebuild my physical catalog so I could get away from streaming.

thin laptops and LED Disco Cases killed CD-readers anyways. it's a shame to loose a cheap way of making media archives, but it is what it is.

Keep in mind that though this is a blow to the industry, it's not like optical media is just yet dead. Hell, there are still new releases to DVDs coming out today.

So that they can fully control the fate of digital media for "normal" people. Better not lapse on that subscription or fail to upgrade to the latest Sony TV... "Your" media library might not like that, be a shame if you lost access to those pretty titles you love..

i can't even remember the last time i saw an optical disc. it must be several years.

MiniDisks too? Nooo!

Wow I'm having a hard time believing that Sony of all people would abandon a technology

What's even the alternative for Blu-ray discs that they are closing its production?

I'm perfectly fine with storing media on flash drives. Optical disks just adds an unnecessary step between me and enjoying my movies.