Shiny discs were supposed to kill boring magnetic tape once and for all Tape remains the only true viable long-term solution but drives are far too expensive It's 2025 and after almost 20 years, Sony ...

Verbatim has pledged to continue supporting the recordable optical media market in Japan after Sony's manufacturing closure.

Blu-ray, which features large storage capacities ... Furthermore, by providing highly reliable recording media for data storage, we will meet our customers' needs and contribute to the development ...

If you need more, you can get spinning hard drives with more than 20TB of storage. And unlike BD-R discs, you can write data to these drives continuously over time. The PS3's Blu-ray drive helped ...

The company will also cease manufacturing recording MiniDiscs, MD data, and MiniDV cassettes ... Sony has also acknowledged that the Blu-ray storage market never lived up to expectations.

However, MD Data — the ... to a different storage medium). It’s also worth noting that Sony’s recordable media manufacturing isn’t tied to the use of Blu-ray as a studio distribution ...

In a statement, Sony wrote, “In Japan, we have a unique culture to record TV programs in the Blu-ray disc and we sell blank storage Blu-ray ... of true ownership. The data is clear: For most ...

But fear not, data hoarders. Two companies have stepped up to reassure the Japanese market that they'll keep producing high-quality optical media: Verbatim and I-O Data.

BD-R lost its appeal for data storage. Sony BDZ-FTB4200 Blu-ray Disc Recorder for Japan Market Due to restrictions imposed by movie studios and other content providers for the North American market, ...

Your PC storage drives won’t last forever — which ... but as obsolete as they may seem, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs are great archive media. If you’re worried about optical media’s reliability ...