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Welp... There goes physical media...
It’s just one company, it’s not all the Blu-ray production stopping. I think the last time I bought any Sony recordable media was CD-Rs for my MP3 CD player in the mid 00s.
Sony owns the blu-ray format. I'm worried.
They do not own it, they did co-develop it. They’ve never owned it outright.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association
Why are you worried about Sony owning the blu-ray format?
If they're decreasing their production, it could mean that physical media is ending. If so, that fucking sucks because you can't own anything anymore
You really don't understand how Blu-ray works, do you?
Regarding Blu-ray as a medium for movies: Sony isn't able do that kind of damage.
Blu-ray Association would go bananas:
What? No. If I write data to a Blu-ray it’s not encrypted. This comment makes little sense. Sony does not control “the encryption keys”, whatever that means.
It is if it's a commercially bought product like a movie, for instance, and without media being sold on it, the media would be basically dead for most people
There's still the super-DVDs, or whatever they were called.
mega-discs
You thought blu ray sales would just continue forever?