And unlike BD-R discs, you can write data to these drives continuously over time. The PS3's Blu-ray drive helped Sony's format win. Credit: Sony Still, some data hoarder types might be distressed ...

Sony has announced that it will cease production of Blu-ray discs next month. In a statement shared by the company, it announced that "Blu-ray disc media, recording mini discs, recording MD data, mini ...

and drives contain a key that unlocks the encryption and DRM present on BluRay discs. Since 2007, the consortium responsible for this DRM scheme has been pushing updates and revocation lists on ...

In the case of recordable Blu-ray discs (BD-R), on the other hand, the move away from HD films on physical data carriers by other manufacturers is obviously playing a role: there is also a decline ...

Blu-ray Disc recordable (write once) media is identified with grey trim on the packaging and the BD-R designation. Currently, ...