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.
I think it is so sad because It is end of the nice era.
I have never once bought a physical blueray, or used one that isn't digital.
Blurays are all digital
Same with DVD and CDs. We haven't had non-digital mass media for decades, except I guess vinyl for collectors.
This is only for recordable BD-Rs, Blu-ray movies will not be affected.
So it is one option less to store data long term and inaccessible to covert internet surviallance, but only the plebs are restricted.
I'm one of like 5 people on the planet who still uses his minidisc player. I've bought some of the blank minidiscs Sony was still making. Seeing them finally end production hurts. I have a bunch of minidiscs already, but I feel like I should stock up before prices go nuts.
I had a minidisc for years. Quickly got replaced by chip based MP3 players.
I still liked my discs because I could swap and play more music.
I had a minidisc stereo in like, idk, 1998? That was an awesome piece of tech.
It was the physical mp3
