Sony plans to eventually stop producing consumer-grade recordable Blu-ray discs, but commercial products such as game and film Blu-rays will still be produced. Sony Group will lay off 250 employees at ...

Sony Pictures Entertainment is taking over Disney’s physical media business. Per Variety, Disney and Sony Pictures Entertainment have struck a deal for the latter company to take over the ...

Sony is ending production of recordable Blu-ray, MiniDisc and MD Data disc media, along with MiniDV cassettes, the company announced. Last year, Sony said that it would gradually end manufacturing of ...

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 has announced it will end Blu-ray Disc media production in February, marking the end of its nearly two-decade run. Unfortunately, it will also mark the end of optical media storage for the ...

With the slow demise of physical media the past years, companies are gradually closing shop on producing everything from the physical media itself to their players and recorders. For Sony this seems ...

The big picture: Sony, LG, Panasonic, and retailers in general have been gradually withdrawing from the Blu-ray business for years as consumers increasingly favor streaming and other forms of digital ...

Over the last couple of years, fans of the Blu-ray format have had plenty of cause for concern. The widespread adoption of streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ has ...

Of all the fallout that's come from "The Streaming Wars," possibly one of the most creatively damaging things has been how films and television series have been pulled and thrown into limbo. If we're ...