The slow death of DVDs and Blu-rays is continuing as Best Buy has recently stopped selling them and Target is making them only seasonally.
Now Sony has announced that it will stop manufacturing recordable Blu-ray discs that allow you to back up your content, according to an interview with AV Watch via Tom’s Hardware.
Much like the recordable CDs that dominated the 2000s, recordable Blu-rays never caught on. Now flash drives and online media storage to easily move files have made recordable media less popular.
Sony will keep making recordable Blu-ray discs for business use.
“We will continue to sell B2B products by making them in advance, and for consumer products, we will decide on the specific end date in the future through discussions with distribution partners such as mass retailers, but we will continue to sell them for the time being,” Sony said during the interview.
Blu-ray discs could hold 125GB and, at the time they started coming out for consumers, it was one of the few ways to move such large files quickly and easily.
For anyone who still uses Blu-rays to record data, you may want to stock up soon.