by Thinus Ferreira
Sony says it is definitely not ending production of Blu-ray discs or recordable Blu-Ray discs, but is ending the production in Japan of recordable, blank Blu-Ray discs.
Sony's clarification comes after some took a notification, in Japanese and meant for the Japanese market that it is ending production of blank, recordable Blu-Ray discs in Japan, that Sony would be ending the production of Blu-Ray discs completely.
Last week Thursday, Sony, in a Japanese notification on its "Recording Media" section of Sony's support website, told the Japanese market that it will no longer be making Blu-Ray disc media, MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, or MiniDV cassettes, in Japan, from February 2025.
"There will be no successor models. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our many customers for their patronage to date," Sony said in Japanese.
Then people elsewhere in the world translated Sony's Japanese message and wrongly applied and generalised it for Sony worldwide.
Sony says it's definitely not ending the production of Blu-Ray discs - a format it invented in October 2000 - and definitely not ending production of recordable discs for, and in the rest of the world.
"We sell blank storage Blu-ray discs for this use only in Japan. The subject products of this notification are these discs. No other products by Sony Pictures or Blu-ray player sold by Sony are the scope of this notification," Sony said in its statement.
