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Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. (mainichi.jp)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Wow I'm having a hard time believing that Sony of all people would abandon a technology

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

So that they can fully control the fate of digital media for "normal" people. Better not lapse on that subscription or fail to upgrade to the latest Sony TV... "Your" media library might not like that, be a shame if you lost access to those pretty titles you love..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm perfectly fine with storing media on flash drives. Optical disks just adds an unnecessary step between me and enjoying my movies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Flash loses bits of data without power

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