This marks the end of an 18-year journey for the company after Blu-ray became commercially available to the masses in 2006. It follows a decision to end production of recordable B

The silver lining, at least for now, is that studios will continue to sell Blu-ray discs of your favorite movies and shows … although buying those is becoming increasingly more

Blu-ray is not going away just yet as pre-recorded Blu-ray Disc movies and content distributed by movie studios and independent creators are not directly affected by Sony’s announcement. But let’s face it, as streaming continues to dominate, the writing is on the wall, at least for video media.

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Sony’s three-sentence press release confirmed similar death dates for its blank MiniDisc, MD data, and MiniDV cassettes. The company also made it clear that you shouldn’t expect any “successor models” to these formats from them. “We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our many customers for their patronage to date,” Sony wrote last week.

Sony will cease production of various physical media in February. These include Blu-ray recordable disks, MiniDV minicassettes, and others. Sony also

Sony says it will stop manufacturing blank Blu-ray discs for the Japanese market along with MiniDiscs and MiniDV cassettes that could be used to save media in a physical format. W

Sony, one of the biggest proponents of the Blu-ray format, announced that it is ending production of all Blu-ray disc media. Same goes for MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes.

Sony Corp. has said it will stop producing recordable Blu-ray discs as of next month, in what is the latest blow to the physical media industry.