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In a January 23 announcement<\/a>, Sony Storage Media Solutions and Sony Marketing revealed that Sony will finally be halting the production of all models of Blu-ray discs, MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and mini-DV cassettes starting February 2025. This comes as a blow to users of the storage media formats, which Sony has supported for years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sony\u2019s decision to discontinue production comes as the result of the shift to video streaming and cloud storage services. Last July, Sony announced that it would slowly phase out the production of Blu-ray and other optical discs<\/a>, with no definite end-of-production date. With the final month now set in stone, Sony currently has no plans of developing a successor to these formats: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/em>Thank you for your continued patronage of Sony products. We will end production of all models of Blu-ray Disc media, MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes as of February 2025. There will be no successor models. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our many customers for their patronage to date.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sony was instrumental in the creation and popularity of Blu-ray discs, going so far as to promote the PlayStation 3 as an affordable Blu-ray disc player in 2006. Now that the company is ceasing production of Blu-ray discs and isn\u2019t working on a substitute, people have to wonder whether an absolute shift to digital media and video games is inevitable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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