Sony Is Reportedly Gradually Stopping Production Of Blu-Ray Discs

[PaulGo]

Sony is looking to cut a significant portion of employees from its Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture manufacturing base. That base is responsible for the production of Blu-rays, and the reporting paints a bleak picture for employees and physical media collectors.

https://www.thegamer.com/sony-is-rep...ia-collectors/

Probably as Blu-Ray disc production wind down we will see companies stopping production of Blu-Ray players.

[Vilya]

And now we have three threads in three different sections of the forum.

The news is about Sony ceasing production of recordable optical disc media, such as blank BD-R discs that you buy by the spindle full and not about commercially pressed blu-rays that contain movies and TV shows.

Sony just recently entered a deal with Disney to produce MORE blu-ray discs.

[LexInHD]

This has absolutely nothing to do with what is discussed on this forum.

Why?! How?! WTF?!, you exclaim.

The personnel reduction is for their recording media (CD-R/DVD-R/BD-R/Archival Discs) division operating at Sony Sendai Technology Center - which really only does continued and limited business for the professional/Enterprise markets at this time - and not their physical media subsidiary (Sony DADC) that makes the PS4/PS5 and BD/UHD-BD discs that all of us own.

[Deadend45]

On no! Not my Hd-dvd blank media!

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Deadend45

On no! Not my Hd-dvd blank media!

Don't forget about my laserdisc lamentations!

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by RNixon

I think my post was more succinct.

It takes the stamping of more than one foot to put out a wildfire.

[Deadend45]

Originally Posted by Vilya

Don't forget about my laserdisc lamentations!

Stop living in the past man!

[Anthony P]

that was the worst excuse for an article I ever read.

[trespoochies]

Originally Posted by PaulGo

Probably as Blu-Ray disc production wind down we will see companies stopping production of Blu-Ray players.

No, we will not.

[Waboman]

Originally Posted by Vilya

Don't forget about my laserdisc lamentations!

LD-R's. That would have been cool.

[fredman]

Originally Posted by Deadend45

On no! Not my Hd-dvd blank media!

Do you buy SONY brand blank discs? I have never done so (I go thru about 50 BD25 blanks in a 2 - 4 month period).

[LexInHD]

Originally Posted by fredman

Do you buy SONY brand blank discs? I have never done so (I go thru about 50 BD25 blanks in a 2 - 4 month period).

Outside of Sony's limited flash memory products, Sony writable media hasn't really been sold to consumers in Murica for a very long time and their optical disc media production has been laser-focused - no pun intended - on the business/enterprise sectors, with an increasing emphasis on the high-capacity/high-density professional archival storage media that led to BD/UHD-BD for consumers. Their writable media offerings in the optical disc market never caught on with the US customers after the peak of DVD and the early days of Blu-Ray, so they pulled out in the early 2010's, as other companies offered cheaper media to retailers and flash drives had caught on.

[Robert Zohn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF-r-xFwldg

[Scorxpion]

I would like to add this link from digitalbits.com

https://thedigitalbits.com/tag/sony-...ate-and-disney

[PaulGo]

The exception is 4K Blu-ray discs because of the quality and extras they offer.

Blu-ray is going the way of vinyl, if we’re lucky
https://www.techhive.com/article/210...-of-vinyl.html

The 4K Blu-ray Collectors Market Is the Future of Physical Media
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...140000292.html

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by PaulGo

The exception is 4K Blu-ray discs because of the quality and extras they offer.

Blu-ray is going the way of vinyl, if we’re lucky
https://www.techhive.com/article/210...-of-vinyl.html

The 4K Blu-ray Collectors Market Is the Future of Physical Media
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...140000292.html

More of “they may or may not be around years from now” clap trap. Genius articles lol

[AKORIS]

I just heard that studios are going to stop releasing BETAMAX movies!!!!

[Moviefan2k4]

When I first read the headline for this thread, I thought "Wait a minute - Didn't Sony help invent the Blu-Ray format in the first place?!" So I did panic for a few minutes, and then calmed back down after I read more of the details.

[Robert Zohn]

All is fine, Sony is not going to stop making Blu-ray disc for Sony Pictures and Columbia Pictures movies.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by PaulGo

The exception is 4K Blu-ray discs because of the quality and extras they offer.

Blu-ray is going the way of vinyl, if we’re lucky
https://www.techhive.com/article/210...-of-vinyl.html

The 4K Blu-ray Collectors Market Is the Future of Physical Media
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...140000292.html

seriously I can understand falling on that original article, reading it, assuming the person knew what he was talking about and posting it here to bring the news. But as everyone has pointed out that is not what is happening. Sony is cutting jobs at a plant that only produces recordable media and not the kind of meduia used to distribute films and TV series. Now you are just getting ridiculous adding more useless drivel. Nothing is changing when it comes to purchased content. Get over it.