Sony finishes the production of record tools for Data Data Minidisc and MD, as well as Minidv Cassettes, company announcedLast year, Sony said that it will be Gradually stop production Recorded optical media and production at its own factory of the city of Tagaho from a bad sales. Now the production will finally stop in the next month, and “there will be no models of successors,” according to the Japanese web page.
In the announcement, Sony referred to the Blu-Ray Disc Media, which means Recorded mediaNot Blu-ray discs used to spread films (Engadget asked Sony to confirm that this only stops the record production of an optical disk). Currently, Sony offers 11 products in the record category, in the range from 25 to 128 GB, both in R (write once) and in Re (write several times).
While Sony stops the production of Blu-Ray record discs, they are still available from literal and, possibly, others. Nevertheless, Minidiscs can be difficult to find, since Sony was one of the few remaining manufacturers – so you can buy while they are still sold.
Minidisc, mainly used for audio recordings, saw a little Renaissance Among the audiophiles partially related to tactile experience compared to streaming. It was widely used by professionals, since it supports a live record and is still present in the studios, because many content were archivated in this format. (Funny fact: character ne in Matrix keeps his unpleasant products, no matter what they are on minidiscs.)
After it is popular for the collection of films and archiving files, recorded by Blu-ray and other optical media were effectively killed by streaming services, cheap memory and cloud storage. All Sony formats have been killed for decades, and the BD-RA arrived in 2002, Minidis in 1992, MD data in 1993 and Minidv cassettes, mainly used for the production of video, first appeared in 1995.