Sony Pulls Plug On Blu-ray, Marking End Of An Era

As the world has embraced streaming in recent years, Blu-ray sales have declined sharply, paving the way for Sony's decision.

"Thank you very much for your continued support of Sony products," the consumer electronics giant said in a Japanese posting in one of its online support forums and translated by TechCentral using software.

"As of February 2025, we will discontinue production of all Blu-ray Disc media, recording MiniDiscs, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes. There is no successor model," it said, according to the translation.

Sony will no longer produce Blu-ray discs and the other formats from February, it said.

The company released Blu-ray commercially in 2006 as a successor to the DVD format, which had severe limitations in the amount of data that could be stored on each disc.