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After 18 years, Sony's Blu-ray media production draws to a close — shuts its last factory in Feb
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Are you sure about that?
I've read both articles and they both seem to say they are stopping production of Blu-rays, plus three other formats.
It mentions that consumer recordable Blu-rays were already dropped last year.
Still, this might just mean that Sony will no longer make games distributed via disc. Sony does not have a Monopoly on making Blu-ray discs, and I do not believe they can unilaterally decide that no more will be made by others
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_optical_disc_manufacturers
Regardless, it is a sign of the times, with Blu-ray reader production being recently stopped by LG. It's likely all downhill from here, as much as I am sad to say.
I will resist this as much as possible, as I like owning my media. If you give me no means to own my movies, then I will find other ways to acquire them.
Here's a more recent post that seems to contradict this:
https://infosec.pub/post/22823022