Get the latest tech news

After 18 years, Sony's Blu-ray media production draws to a close — shuts its last factory in Feb

MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes will also be abandoned.

Unfortunately, it will also mark the end of optical media storage for the company; as Sony said(machine translation), there won’t be a successor model to the Blu-ray. This end of production would make Blu-ray discs and players much more challenging to acquire from retail stores, although they’re still widely available on online platforms like Amazon. But this move to streaming libraries, where there is no ownership and the movies and shows you watch could simply disappear without warning, reminds us how fleeting life can be.

Get the Android app