Sony Shuts Down Production Of Recordable CD-R, DVD-R And BD-R Discs
(MENAFN- AzerNews)
By Alimat Aliyeva
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 because of the decrease in demand for these products -
consumers prefer other media, Azernews
reports.
Sony will gradually cease production of media on optical discs,
including Blu-ray discs, at its plant in northeastern Japan. About
250 of the company's 670 employees will be laid off, while some
employees will be offered early retirement packages.
It is noted that the cuts will only affect the production of
empty media such as CD-R, DVD-R and BD-R, while the release of
discs for the audio, video and games market will continue at the
same volume, since despite the growing popularity of streaming
services, some consumers still prefer physical media because of the
higher audio and video quality, as well as the ability to create
collections. In addition, there are many cases when previously
purchased digital content became unavailable.
The general trend shows a decrease in demand for optical discs.
Optical disk drives (ODD) have long ceased to be an important
component of desktop computers and laptops, and users are
increasingly choosing external hard drives, SSDs, memory cards,
flash drives, network storage (NAS) and cloud services for data
backup. It seems that with the development of data storage
technologies, consumer preferences are changing.
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