When the company announced the end of BD-R production last year, LG followed suit by exiting the Blu-ray player market a few months later. Currently, Sony and Panasonic are the last remaining ...

The Sony-led, multicompany collaborative effort to develop DVD’s successor dates back to 1998, although it would be years before its creators released the Blu-ray white paper in 2004.

If you are looking for ways to make sure even your older Blu-rays perform as well as they can with your new 4K TV, this UBP-X700M model is a 4K Blu-ray player ... Finally, Sony’s TV SideView ...

There are more examples, though seeing Sony eject itself from producing Blu-ray discs really drives the point home that an era is ending. I can still remember buying an HD-DVD player rather than ...

There have been questions regarding its future, especially considering that the current lineup of 4K Blu-ray players (almost entirely manned by Sony and Pansonic, aside from some specialist brands ...

DVD and Blu-ray sales fell 26 percent last year. The Sony announcement is just the latest gut punch for Blu-ray fans. It comes on the back of LG revealing that it’s not making new Blu-ray players ...

Production of all models of 'Blu-ray Disc Media,' 'Recordable MiniDisc,' 'Recordable MD Data,' and 'MiniDV Cassette' will end in February 2025. Blu-ray is a recording medium developed primarily by ...

While demand for new titles on DVD, Blu-ray Disc and UHD Blu-ray fell by almost 25% in ... However, there are only a few companies left making players with Sony and Panasonic being the two major ...

As Mackenzie explains, the types of Blu-ray discs that Sony won’t make any more are “home-recordable” discs, like the blank DVD-Rs and CD ... a high-end Blu-ray player, TechHive’s Magnetar ...

Once expected to replace DVDs as the dominant physical media format, Blu-ray never quite reached the same level of success.

Blu-ray discs first went on sale in 2006, when they did battle with the competing HD DVD standard. Eventually, Sony's tight relationship with film studios and the release of the Blu-ray-equipped ...

Sony was instrumental in popularizing Blu-ray technology, especially with the PlayStation 3’s role as an affordable Blu-ray player. This announcement signifies the end of a significant chapter ...