Article says it started as removing BD-R and they’d keep operating for corporate customers (studios) but that appears to have collapsed quickly. I’m interpreting it as the end of Blu-ray production entirely.
Commercial sales have quickly become insufficient to sustain Sony’s optical media business.
Didn’t Sony recently take over Blu-ray production for Disney? And don’t they also have Blu-ray titles scheduled for release in the next few months? This doesn’t make sense to me.
Yes and yes, but looking at BR releases, they seem to drop off hard around the month of May.
This lines up pretty close to 3 months after close, I think that could be a reasonable lead time if production ends next month. They are probably printing April releases right now.
But I’m speculating and toms hardware seems to be waiting for clarification from Sony themselves, perhaps there is still some hope.
This is about recordable BD-R’s, this doesn’t affect Blu-ray movies.
At least, I hope not…
Yet.
Article says it started as removing BD-R and they’d keep operating for corporate customers (studios) but that appears to have collapsed quickly. I’m interpreting it as the end of Blu-ray production entirely.
Didn’t Sony recently take over Blu-ray production for Disney? And don’t they also have Blu-ray titles scheduled for release in the next few months? This doesn’t make sense to me.
Yes and yes, but looking at BR releases, they seem to drop off hard around the month of May.
This lines up pretty close to 3 months after close, I think that could be a reasonable lead time if production ends next month. They are probably printing April releases right now.
But I’m speculating and toms hardware seems to be waiting for clarification from Sony themselves, perhaps there is still some hope.
You never know, maybe they just didn’t announce new titles yet.
Or maybe I’m just coping.