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 ...

Sony is ending production of recordable Blu-ray, MiniDisc and MD Data disc media, along with Mini DV cassettes.

But fear not, as there's little indication the supply of optical media is about to dry up in the US and Europe. For one thing ...

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Following Sony’s announcement that it was officially ending production of recordable Blu-ray discs this month, Verbatim and I ...

The company will then cease production of recordable Blu-ray discs, MiniDiscs and MiniDV cassettes. It may come as a surprise that these media are still being produced at all, as Sony launched its ...

Shiny discs were supposed to kill boring magnetic tape once and for all Tape remains the only true viable long-term solution but drives are far too expensive It's 2025 and after almost 20 years, Sony ...

Sony says it will stop manufacturing blank Blu-ray discs for the Japanese market along with MiniDiscs and MiniDV cassettes ...

Sony’s three-sentence press release confirmed similar death dates for its blank MiniDisc, MD data, and MiniDV cassettes. The ...

The end of an era came via a short release in the Announcements List on Sony’s Japanese website. Translated to English, the ...

But fear not, data hoarders. Two companies have stepped up to reassure the Japanese market that they'll keep producing high-quality optical media: Verbatim and I-O Data.