Blu-ray discs have been part of the digital media landscape for almost 20 years, but fewer and fewer people have optical drives to use them. As such, Sony doesn't see the need to keep pumping out ...

As of February 2025, Sony will no longer manufacture and distribute blank recordable Blu-ray Discs. When you consider that Best Buy stopped selling physical media in 2024 and Target is about to pull ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. During recent prior year projections for digital storage and memory we have not talked much about digital storage using optical ...

With the explosion in streaming over the last decade, people want to tell you that physical media is dead as a doornail. Yes, the market has shrunk dramatically and stores like Best Buy have stopped ...

What just happened? One of the few remaining big-name manufacturers of Blu-ray players, LG, has discontinued production of the devices. It's sad news for fans of physical media and means that ...

Any home theater enthusiast who has been in the hobby for more than a few years surely remembers when Oppo exited the Blu-ray business back in 2018. It came as a major blow, and a sign of the changing ...

Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray disc, is the data storage format that was designed to supersede DVDs. According to the history of Blu-ray technology, it was first developed as a way to use blue laser ...

In context: While cloud storage and streaming have become the preferred way of consuming content for many, there remains a devoted crowd for whom optical media is irreplaceable. Sony used to be a big ...

Last week, Sony broke the news that it is putting the kibosh on its writeable Blu-Ray disc business. While that’s not catastrophic news for physical media fans, it’s certainly disappointing. The first ...

If you used or owned a laptop in the 2000s, you'd probably remember that it sported either a DVD or Blu-Ray drive for popping in installation discs, movies, and even the occasional album from your ...