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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. (mainichi.jp)
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[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s just one company, it’s not all the Blu-ray production stopping. I think the last time I bought any Sony recordable media was CD-Rs for my MP3 CD player in the mid 00s.

[–] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sony owns the blu-ray format. I'm worried.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They do not own it, they did co-develop it. They’ve never owned it outright.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association