Sony plans to eventually stop producing consumer-grade recordable Blu-ray discs, but commercial products such as game and film Blu-rays will still be produced. Sony Group will lay off 250 employees at ...

Sony has announced the reduction of 250 jobs at its optical disc manufacturing plant in Tagaze, Japan, as part of an initiative to completely phase out the production of recordable optical media. All ...

Sony Electronics will take the wraps off a new suite of DVD recordable discs, including DVD-RW and DVD-R, as well as DVD+RW and DVD+R media today. “We think the discs will be of interest to Mac users ...

An opened jumbo pack of "Sony DVD-R 16x" with no other information. 90+ disks on the spindle. A sealed 50-pack of Memorex CD-R, made in China, packaging has copyright dates of 2006. A sealed 25-pack ...

High prices and compatibility issues loom large as makers of recordable and rewritable DVD discs and players shoot for the kind of mainstream acceptance enjoyed by non-recordable DVD-ROM products.

Sony's first-generation Blu-ray computer drive, the BWU-100A, is compatible with more disc formats than any other optical drive now on the market. The BWU-100A can burn single- and double-layer ...

A mistranslation or misinterpretation of a statement by Sony's vice president for consumer electronics, Katsumi Ihara, led many U.S. media outlets to believe that Sony was dropping all support for DVD ...

If you're confident that Blu-ray is going to win the optical media standards war over HD DVD, then you may be interested in the HES-V1000, a 200 Blu-ray disc changer and media center, now offered by ...

HANOVER, GERMANY – Fujitsu Ltd. and Sony Corp. unveiled the latest upgrade to the Magneto Optical (MO) rewritable optical disc here at the CeBIT trade show Wednesday. The two companies are showing ...

Sony announces 50GB Blu-ray DiscsThe new BNR50A recordable and BNE50A rewritable dual-layer discs are 1-2x speed compatible at 72 Mbps and use advanced Sony AccuCORE Technology to accurately store ...