Sony is ending production of Blu-ray, Minidorc and MD DATA DIST MEDIA recordings, along with minidv cassettes, the company Office has partnered. Last year, Sony said it was Slowly ending the build of recording optical media in the Tagajo City plant due to poor sales. Now, production will definitely stop next month and “there will be no successor models,” according to the Japanese Web page.

In the announcement, Sony refers to “Blu-ray disc Media,” which it refers to Recording Media onlynot Blu-ray discs used to distribute movies (Engadget requested that Sony confirm that it is fixing the recording of optical disc production in opticable). Sony currently offers 11 products in the recorded category, from 25GB to 128GB, in both r (write once) and write multiple times).

While Sony has stopped producing recorded Blu-ray discs, they are still available from Verbatim and perhaps others. However, minidors can be hard to come by as Sony is one of the few remaining manufacturers – so you’ll want to stock up while they’re still on sale.

Minidorc, mostly used for audio recording, sees a small a excess Among audiophiles due in part to Tactile’s successful experience compared to streaming. It is widely used by professionals as it supports live recording and still has a presence in studios because a lot of content is archived in the format. (Fun fact: the character neo sa The matrix kept his bad merchandise, whatever they were, of ministers.)

Once popular for movie collecting and file archiving, Blu-ray recording and other optical media have been effectively killed off by streaming services, cheap memory. All the formats that Sony killed in decades, with BD-REV in 2002, Minidors in 1992, MD data in 1993 and minidv cassettes, first used in 1995.