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Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. (mainichi.jp)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

And yet you can still buy phones with headphone jacks. Because there is demand for them. The reason you didn't see many is because the demand is a lot less than what Lemmy users would have you believe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

But adoption has fallen so significantly that you have to rely on listicles to find what you're looking for. The same could very easily and quickly happen with optical discs, and if I may be afforded an anecdote, I've seen exactly one optical disc brand in the last decade (Verbatim). And that's when shops have them available, which is extremely rare nowadays.

They might not go away completely, but just like with headphone jacks on phones, you'll have to scrounge for them. Same with if you want a display that's less than 6", or a physical keyboard. (Or a floppy disk...!)