The last decade swept with the physical storage supports With the growth of cloud and the services of streaming. Blu-ray It was the last attempt of the industry to stay over time in this field, but little has been able to do. In recent years, many brands have gotten out of the ship and have stopped manufacturing playersthe last LG Last December. And now it is Sonyits main valid throughout two decades, who puts distance with the format.
The company has announced in a statement on its Japanese website that suspends the production of recordable Blu-ray discas well as Minidisc and cassettes Minidv. Sony is the main manufacturer of these formats, so this type of support They will stop being accessible when production stops in February.
This decision does not affect the Blu-ray discs that you can buy with video games or films in them, but to the ‘virgins’ that can be used to record content. It is, in any case, another nail in the coffin of physical support. ‘There is no successor model’Sony states.
He Blu-ray It was launched in 2005promoted by Sony and Panasonic Through the Blu-ray disc associationto happen to DVD with greater storage and resolution capacity. Offers up 50 GB (in the double layer) and 1080p in front of the 8.5 GB (also double layer) and 576p of the DVD. His success was promoted by being part of the PlayStation 3 and the successive Sony consoles and also Microsoft from the Xbox One.
He Minidisc He is more veteran. It was released in 1992 as a digital audio format with greater resistance and better portability than CD. Use regrabable magnetic discs, with capacity of up to 80 minutes of compressed music with the codec Attract. Was limited by its high cost and the appearance of players MP3although he found a market between audiophiles.
And the Minidvwhich also comes to an end, is a digital video tape format developed by several manufacturers, including Sony, Panasonic and JVCand launched in 1995. Offers upper image and sound quality, allows you to record 500 resolution lines and digital audio of 16 bitsto the analog systems of that time, facilitating the edition without loss of quality when using compression DV. The small size of their tapes and their portability helped to become popular, but He was relegated with the rise of HD formats.