According to a survey by the Association of Electronics Industries and tion Technology (JEITA), the number of Blu-ray recording and reproduction devices has fallen by more than 80% since 2011.
The Japanese multinational Sony will stop production of recording discs in Blu-ray and Minidisc formats, as well as the Mini DV tape for video cameras, from February, marking the final withdrawal of recording media production from recording media physical format.
The announcement comes amid the growing use of external hard drives and cloud as storage means, as well as the proliferation of streaming services, which has led to a decline in demand for optical drive recording media.
These formats “have no successor,” the company said in the statement on the production suspension, published this Thursday.
In this context, Sony has decided to end the production of all the physical recording formats it has maintained, the Blu-ray, the Minidisc and the data minidisc (MD data), in addition to the DV tape, although it that will continue the development and production of Blu-ray recording and reproduction devices, he told that medium.
It’s not clear what will happen with the format’s use for movies and video games, although Sony may plan to continue stocking these formats for inter-company distribution, at least for now, according to details gathered by the Nikkei Economic newspaper.
Production of the above formats is expected to conclude at a date to be determined in February and retail sales will close once the shares are completed.
According to a survey by the Association of Electronics Industries and tion Technology (JEITA), the number of blue X-ray recording and reproduction equipment has fallen by more than 80% since 2011.
Source: EITB

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